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In this comment you've made a claim that GQL is not only weaker than REST here, but notoriously weaker. The only argument that you seem to have made here is that a REST call "can" do the same type of things that are built into GraphQL.

You haven't supported your position that GraphQL is weaker at all. Everything that I have read, seen and heard is exactly the opposite. GraphQL seems to be the "I will never go back to REST" experience for virtually everybody I know in the field who has used it.

The other issue is that you're fighting the nature of REST itself to make it do more. Sure, you can make any API call take in specific input and send out exactly the output that you need...but REST API guidelines tend to preach exactly the opposite approach. The call should return one thing and if you want more, you need to get it yourself.

I'm open to hearing your perspective on this, but if you're going to make a claim like that you really need to support it.