[dmitriid]

> I'm as much opposed to adding more incidental complexity to the frontend as the next guy, but GraphQL has objective purpose and makes a lot of things much simpler

By moving all that complexity to the backend. It's not luddism to call this out.

> Learning new things and doing things better than they were done a year before is an essential part of being a professional software engineer

Yeah, no. It's not "better than they were done a year ago". It's just dumping all the complexity in somebody else's lap, reimplements a bunch of things from scratch, poorly, and calls it progress.