So you enjoy being pedantic for the sake of being pedantic? I see no useful benefit either from a professional or social setting to act like this.
I don’t find this method of discovery very productive and often regardless of meeting some standard in the API the real peculiarities are in the logic of the endpoints and not the surface.
I can see a value in pedantry in a professional setting from a signaling point of view. It's a cheap way to tell people "Hey! I'm not like those other girls, I care about quality," without necessarily actually needing to do the hard work of building that quality in somewhere where the discerning public can actually see your work.
(This is not a claim that the original commenter doesn't do that work, of course, they probably do. Pedants are many things but usually not hypocrites. It's just a qualifier.)
You'd still probably rather work with that guy than with me, where my preferred approach is the opposite of penalty. I slap it all together and rush it out the door as fast as possible.
>> "Hey! I'm not like those other girls, I care about quality,"
OMG. Pure gold!
What some people call pedantic, others may call precision. I normally just call the not-quite-REST API styles as simply "HTTP APIs" or even "RPC-style" APIs if they use POST to retrieve data or name their routes in terms of actions (like some AWS APIs).