> Only because we never had the tools and resources that, say, GraphQL has.
GraphQL promised to solve real-world problems.
What real world problems does HATEOAS addresses? None.
GraphQL was "promising" something because it was a thing by a single company.
HATEOAS didn't need to "promise" anything since it was just describing already existing protocols and capabilities that you can see in the links I posted.
And that's how you got POST-only GraphQL which for years has been busily reinventing half of HTTP
Only because we never had the tools and resources that, say, GraphQL has.
And now everyone keeps re-inventing half of HTTP anyway. See this diagram https://raw.githubusercontent.com/for-GET/http-decision-diag... (docs https://github.com/for-GET/http-decision-diagram/tree/master...) and this: https://github.com/for-GET/know-your-http-well