The thing is a proper REST API is a Kingdom of Nouns. The core issue is that very few were doing object oriented programming and design the way it was intended. Giving me some leeway here, Kay's original idea was a programming model similar to that of the internet but in memory.

If one's position is that striving for a distributed model in memory is the wrong approach because of the inherent complexity associated with distributed systems that's fine but I rarely hear this argument. Typically, OOP/OOD is criticized based off of patterns that aren't proper.