> I drank the HATEOAS Kool-Aid when I first learned about REST too, and then I built a beautiful API that used it. What did the developers ask for? A list of URLs.

Maybe you should've built them a client too? https://www.braintreepayments.com/braintrust/when-rest-isnt-...

I've heard great things from people updating their API clients to use our new hypermedia stuff. So we're pushing forward with our hypermedia experiments at GitHub. People are still free to optimize for speed (reduce the number of HTTP calls in environments where it really matters) or even development speed (hardcoding a few API calls instead of dropping in a full client library) if they like.