You really get enjoyment writing a full CRUD HTTP API five times, one for each endpoint?

I don't :) Before I had IDE templates and Intellisense. Now I can just get any agentic AI to do it for me in 60 seconds and I can get to the actual work.

Why do you need a full crud http api for? Just loading the data straight from the database? Usually I've already implemented that before and I just copy paste the implementation and doing some VIM magic. And in Frameworks like Rails or Laravel, it may be less than 10 lines of code. More involved business logic? Then I'm spending more time getting a good spec for those than implementing the spec.