I&#x27;d like to point out that this formatting convention is not a widespread standard. &quot;You should&quot; is biased towards making life simpler for a small number of people who have used the format before, while complicating and bloating your API responses - for both the developer(s) and consumers of your API.<p>Consumers are now expected to add a full library to their project to parse&#x2F;understand the JSON responses. Also, implementation overload for many languages: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonapi.org&#x2F;implementations&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jsonapi.org&#x2F;implementations&#x2F;</a>