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If I insinuated that GraphQL is dead, that wasn't my intention. It definitely has fallen out of the spotlight, however. I'd point to e.g. looking at statistically how many APIs ran by major internet companies are available over GraphQL versus more traditional REST or RPC. Github is the only one that springs to mind, and its available in addition to a REST API.

Even Meta has a "Graph API" that is not GraphQL (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview) (they may have an odd GraphQL API here and there; I am not deeply familiar with the entirety of their offering, and I don't want to insinuate such; just that they don't seem to rave about it front and center if they do, and instead invented a second, separate thing).

I interact with a GraphQL API among much smaller integration partners maybe once or twice a year; versus dozens of REST APIs. They're definitely around, people definitely still use it (my company has one!), but arguing that its the standard way frontend APIs are written feels very detached from reality; and maybe you really are special.