GraphQL kinda sucks
I've only used GraphQL at my last two gigs, and didn't work with it full time. So there's a massive grain of salt. I think GraphQL is _mostly_ fine as a technology, but it seems incredibly easy to misuse and abuse. Particularly the fact that you can write arbitrary resolvers for specific fields and include any amount of business logic you like. It blurs the line between GQL being an interface to your API and actually being the API, and invariably it seems that too much logic gets put into resolvers because it's so easy.<p>As far as I can tell, one of the best ways to use GraphQL is as a sort of RPC framework. At which point, my question becomes why not just use an actual RPC framework? Personally I find the field filtering and reduced network I/O to be overblown. Anecdotally, most of the GQL queries I've seen request HUGE amounts of data up front to reduce the number of overall requests that need to be made. Obviously not saying that's everyone's usage, but in my experience GQL has never really been much of a value add.