Pondering REST heresy

I don't think you mean that Java "exiled" nouns, especially considering you said Java consists of "nouns nouns nouns nouns". To "exile" is to send away, to remove. It has the exact opposite connotation of what you were trying to say.

Other than that, this is pretty silly. The architectural changes required by allowing arbitrary HTTP verbs are terribly unnecessary for the sake of making semantics infinetesimally better to a few peo... no, not a few people. Just you.

The problem is, the PUT, PATCH, and POST verbs make it clear what is going on. All the SHUFFLE verb does is obfuscate what the server's actually doing. The verbs refer to what the request is doing, not the application. I think the ambiguity in that respect is one of the weaknesses of REST (or at least how it is now preached).