REST was never about CRUD
Until AJAX happened around 2005, GET and POST were the only verbs you could actually use in a browser. Before then, REST was not a really a thing. It used to be that semantics of HTTP verbs had meaning in the context of e.g. caching and other middleware. But now that everybody uses TLS, having caching proxies acting as middlemen and interpreting http messages is not that common any more.<p>REST was a nice idea when it got (re)invented about ten years after Fielding&#x27;s thesis but it left too much open for debate, ambiguity, and nitpicking and quickly degenerated in different opinionated camps trying to retrofit new ideas to the existing practices around http, which mainly boiled down to interesting ways to do RPC.<p>Before HTTP, people were already long doing RPC using e.g. DCOM, CORBA,RMI, etc. Reinveinting RPC over X has been the fate of pretty much every way we&#x27;ve come up with to make two computers talk to each other.