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i'm running out of ways to say that a CRUD endpoint should not have dynamism in the sense that you mean

/users/:id should map to 1 endpoint that's parameterized on userid

/search?userid=:userid&tag=:tag should map to 1 endpoint that's parameterized on userid and tag(s)

endpoints should be simple to write

You’ve never actually implemented a real world implementation, have you?

You’re going to have parameters that are compound. You’re going to end up filtering on objects 3 relations removed, or deal with nasty syncing of normalization. You’ll have endpoints with generic relations, like file uploads, where the parent isnt a foreign key.

It’s going to be a mess. They will NOT always be simple to write.

Yeah and programs should also be simple, but there would be no value to them that way.

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