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The longer I work with and write APIs, the more and more I believe everything should be a POST.

That's actually really correct in the most wrong way possible. I've worked with one too many endpoints that don't care about UPDATE, DELETE, and whatever else beside POST exists, while relying on body data to do the "what department are you looking for" requests.

Yes, I also balked when I originally encountered this pattern at a previous co.

And I think agree with your point, "correct in a wrong way"? Yeah, everything as a POST is wrong, but it is less wrong and more clear to just ignore REST because the assumptions are broken so often it just makes it more complicated.

Just POST everything and make it clear in the URI + bodies what is happening.

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