Such "bitching" is seen very badly on HN and will get down voted. There is no need to be wary of such comments because they will simply turn grey and fade out.
REST is an architectural style, a set of constraints applied to the design of a web API. An API can be considered RESTful if it satisfies ALL of the constraints.
This is why I dislike the rest of the framework! Do make sure to take a look at https://github.com/Roysvork/LinqToQuerystring/ as this should work more or less fine with XML... if it doesn't raise an issue :)