Reading comprehension, you definitely don't have it. I didn't say REST wasn't well-defined or was worthless, I said most of the uses of the acronym are as a worthless and meaningless buzzword, having very little to do with REST itself. That is a very different issue.

And since most of the uses of the "REST" acronym have little to do with actually RESTful system, the rise and fall of the buzzword has no relation with the rise and fall of RESTful system (which, objectively, have had very little rise in the first place)