Your argument isn't researched either, if your metric is based on including sources.

You seem to be arguing that REST lost because if you look around today you will only find RPC. I agree. My point wasn't that REST won. Part of my point, though, was that REST lost and the industry has tried multiple times to bolt don't JSON RPC solutions to the same problems REST already addressed. If you would like to see some of those examples just look up Swagger, Open API, or MCP.

I agree JSON won, and I agree that it was picked based on arguments over DX. I'm not sure where you and k disagree here.