[bernawil]

you don't think it's a benefit that you could get the benefits of a "hydration service that ran as a proxy in front of the requests" out of the box?

there's lots of other benefits for GQL: multiple queries per request, mutation/query separation, typed errors, subscriptions support.

[karmakaze]

I currently use GraphQL and have no problems with it specifically, I was merely sharing an experience using REST. Perhaps it adds a bit of latency/overhead due to the implementation/language that's used but with larger requests rounds downward.