Mark, I care deeply about the hobbyist who writes some code on the side, the programmer who works from 9-5 and has a life and just as deeply about those who work 24/7 and about everybody in between 
That said: now that we're getting close to being done with the "this vs. that" debate, we can most certainly figure out the "how can we optimize the programming experience" story. For very many people I've talked to in the past 4 years or so, reducing complexity is an important thing. I firmly believe that we can do enterprise messaging and Web-Style/Lo-REST/POX with a single technology stack that scales up and down in terms of its capabilities.
Since I take that you are worried about code-bloat on the app-level, how would you think about the following client-side one-liners?
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T data = Pox.Get<T>("myCfg")
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T data = Pox.Get<T>("myCfg", new Uri("/customer/8929", UriKind.Relative));
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T data = Pox.Get<T>("myCfg", new Uri("http: //example.com/customer/8929"));
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T data = Pox.Get<T>(new Uri("http: //example.com/customer/8929"));
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U reply = Pox.Put<T,U>( new Uri("http: //example.com/customer/8929"), data, ref location));
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U reply = Pox.Post<T,U>( new Uri("http: //example.com/customer/"), data, out location));
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Pox.Delete(settings, new Uri("http: //example.com/customer/8929"));
Whereby "myCfg" refers to a set of config to specify security, proxies, and so forth; settings would refer to an in-memory object with the same reusable info. Our stack lets me code that sort of developer experience in a quite straightforward fashion and I can throw SOAPish WS-Transfer under it and make the call flow on a reliable, routed TCP session with binary encoding without changing the least bit.
If I am still missing your point in terms of ease of use and line count, make a wish, Mark. 