While on a literal years-long journey to understanding REST, I happened upon RDF and the semantic web. What a load of crock.

I was absolutely ecstatic when I learned about the semantic web and the idea of having a world-wide machine-readable standard for data, only to realize it had to be tacked onto the current stack of web technology. When was the last time you saw any popular website expose a schema.org web page, or a Hydra endpoint?

The web is an endless morass of ad-hoc RPC endpoints, with nothing governing how you can interact with it, unless they happen to adhere to some bullshit Gooogle standard to enhance SEO.