In CouchDB 1.x, one of our [the CouchDB developers’] overarching goals was to create **a database that is easy to use**. We spent many years refining [the CouchDB REST API](https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/api/index.html) to make it as easy and as convenient as possible, so people don’t get turned away from using CouchDB by how hard it is to use.
