Anyone working in an organisation where teams are trying to map business logic errors into HTTP status codes?

Wasn't Fieldings original dissertation meant as a formalisation of the web? I.e. it had nothing to do with APIs until later, when that became popular in the mid 2000s?

The amount of nonsense conversations / meetings I have been in over the years around designing "RESTful" APIs, endless discussions, I can no longer keep count. Because, unless you're working on an academic research project, everything in REST becomes a compromise.

At this point I am starting believe that REST has done more harm than good for the industry.