How is that simple? What does "status" mean? I'm personally familiar with the word "status"—but whatever that property is, I'd have to re-implement it in my user agent, which seems like a waste because my user agent already understands HTTP status codes. How is it simple to have to look at and interpret two different "status" fields? (And that's just the first property!)

What part of the article is verbose? What's wrong with verbose?