Even beyond PUT vs PATCH I found this statement to be rather naive:
"From my experience, there barely exist any use cases in practice where a full update on a resource would make sense"
Just in finance I can think of *dozens* of use cases around invoicing and purchasing *alone*. A lot of times thousands of resources may need just one field "corrected", but hundreds others "reset" to ensure the proper retriggering of routing, workflows, and allocations. That the resources need to exist as originals is incredibly important for these kinds of things.
"From my experience, there barely exist any use cases in practice where a full update on a resource would make sense"
Just in finance I can think of *dozens* of use cases around invoicing and purchasing *alone*. A lot of times thousands of resources may need just one field "corrected", but hundreds others "reset" to ensure the proper retriggering of routing, workflows, and allocations. That the resources need to exist as originals is incredibly important for these kinds of things.