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Query by content reminds me of XPath, so I looked it up to see if there was a version for JSON...

Turns out there is https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-goessner-dispatch-json...

Yeah, one option is to use a different content-type for your json-patch values and basically extend JSON Patch[1] to use JSON Path[2] instead of JSON Pointer[3].

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6902

[2] https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9535

[3] https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6901

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