[wegs]

I don't find GraphQL to be easier to learn than SQL. But SQL is a much more helpful and generalizable skill.

That's the second-system syndrome. Once you tack all the stuff on needed for something "simple" to be useful, it gets as complex as the original. Only all the "SQL replacements" do less, and do it less well.

If you want simple, RESTful APIs are a way to go.

(And no, your average analyst doesn't know GraphQL either -- and if you want to go down that learning curve, might as well learn how to do SQL properly in these contexts instead)