Albeit the title might (probably) be a bit inflammatory, I've come to feel like REST is a bad solution for the problem that it solves.
The thing with REST, is that at its core, it's basically a RPC (Remote Procedure Call) that we've been trying to cram in the HTTP protocol. There is no good reason to do that. HTTP wasn't made for this, and we should instead be abstracting that layer away instead of trying to use it for purposes it isn't meant to fulfill.
