[FpUser]

>"The point is if I don't want to write hand-cranked code for every kind of possible query, I take a performance hit as a result."

This is how we end up with the architectures consuming orders of magnitude more computing resources and giant management overhead. Just because someone wants to be spared from a bit of thinking.

I can see how GraphQL would work for orgs with the massive scale like FB/Google/Insert your favorite. For the most of rest of the world it is nothing but unneeded overhead on resource both human and computing.

And of course cloudy people like Amazon would love you to use all this tech. The more you slow down your application the more resources you will be leasing from them so they get more money