There is no such thing as a "REST standard" and that's why we've been having all these pointless arguments for the last 15 years. If Fielding really wanted web developers to use REST he would have wrote a normative spec about REST.
Seems to me that REST was never about developers writing web API. The whole "smart client" capable of API discovery through "hyperlinks" is... a browser with a user clicking on those links. Except that API aren't consumed by browsers but other apps that are neither as smart nor complex.
There is no such thing as a "REST standard" and that's why we've been having all these pointless arguments for the last 15 years. If Fielding really wanted web developers to use REST he would have wrote a normative spec about REST.
Seems to me that REST was never about developers writing web API. The whole "smart client" capable of API discovery through "hyperlinks" is... a browser with a user clicking on those links. Except that API aren't consumed by browsers but other apps that are neither as smart nor complex.