>Another overengineered abstraction recreating things that already exist.
This section is for you: https://overreacted.io/jsx-over-the-wire/#html-ssi-and-cgi
>Everyone ignores the "hypermedia constraint" part of REST and then has to work crazy magic to make up for it.
Right, that's why I've linked to https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposi... the moment we started talking about this. The post also clarifies multiple times that I'm talking about how REST is used in practice, not its "textbook" interpretation that nobody refers to except in these arguments.