Buf Connect or any RPC design really is great. I'm sick of REST too. No more endless discussions about how to make this endpoint the most RESTful or how to cram a feature into REST that doesn't fit. "Oh you need an endpoint to hibernate the server? Just POST a new Hibernate object to the /api/v2/hibernations service."
No. With RPC we can just make a HibernateServer call and be done with it.
RTF tried to make it clear in his famous dissertation that REST was about resource-oriented hypermedia, and that apps not designed around hypermedia should use different architectures -- he even names some of them. Unfortunately he inspired many followers to interpret it to mean that hypermedia is the One And Only True Way to design apps for the web.
No. With RPC we can just make a HibernateServer call and be done with it.