100% agreed, “language evolves”

This article also tries to make the distinction of not focusing on the verbs themselves. That the RESTful dissertation doesn’t focus on them.

The other side of this is that the IETF RESTful proposals from 1999 that talk about the protocol for implementation are just incomplete. The obscure verbs have no consensus on their implementation and libraries across platforms may do PUT, PATCH, DELETE incompatibly. This is enough reason to just stick with GET and POST and not try to be a strict REST adherents since you’ll hit a wall.