[infogulch]

It helps that GraphQL has an actual spec, protocol, and defined schema and is intended to be shipped as a separate microservice that just implements your schema according to the spec.

REST is more "hodge podge of concepts" that you can hack on and pollute and misunderstand at will.

I guess nothing will stop people from making Frankenstein schemas or poorly performing resolvers but at least the consumption is mostly uniform?

[BoorishBears]

Some people would rather take a hodge lodge of concepts over a hodge podge of implementations. HTTP clients have been done to death, GraphQL clients on the other hand...