Another perspective might be:
Humans want to come up with solutions for systems, they don't want to just implement features. We want to find coherence, some times where little is to be found. We want solutions to be orthogonal. We want to solve NEW (for us) problems.
Writing yet another rest route handler is not real work, it's not stimulating.. "return some data from the database when this is hit" is below everyone once they've done it once. It does not matter how much value that data brings, if the work is just "register handler, query database, return result", it's boring and nobody can be expected to find any joy doing that.. Like paving road, it's probably an interesting experience the first time you do it, but do anyone want to continue doing that? or do they want to move on to the next interesting thing?
I'm not saying it's the right behavior, just that there's a reason. Programming should be a somewhat intellectual endeavor..