i am not sure i follow, the deeper the query or bigger the returned dataset, the worse the performance of a dataloader type solution (see my other comment).
We're agreeing here, I think. I'm saying that after taking care of the n+1 problem by using dataloader, you still have to worry about deeply nested queries.
This is true, but most complex UIs tends to result in queries that spread wide rather than deep. It takes some deliberate contrivance or fairly unusual real-world cases to get to more than 3-4 levels of nested relationships, and this is often the point at which you'd be thinking to deferred/lazy loading in the client anyway.
I've spent a significant amount of time over the last year or so optimizing GraphQL servers built on domain-driven services (i.e. joins aren't an option) and managed to get to equal (or very marginally worse) performance to existing handcrafted endpoints that returned equivalent data (it was possible to build the same UI, even though the payloads weren't identical).
There are areas where GraphQL is inherently inefficient (trying to work on ways to mitigate these issues), but the reality is that deeply-nested UI appears to be less of a problem than I originally thought it would be.