How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST? ↗

And here I thought I knew full well what RESTful APIs had to look like. The constraint in my head was that individual resources (e.g. items in a database) should have their own URL and you used the HTTP verbs (GET, POST, DELETE, etc.) correctly.

What was missing from that is the Hypermedia aspect, where each response defines the appropriate URLs for the possible next steps.

In that regard, the OGC APIs that I worked with and on around 2019-2021 make a lot more sense now and are a lot more consistent with a proper RESTful API than I thought.