[awesome_dude]

You could be right, but that's really just "Our API makes multiple calls to itself in the background"

I could be wrong but I thought GraphQL's point of difference from a blind proxy was that it was flexible.

[wrs]

It is flexible, but you don’t have to let it be infinitely flexible. There’s no practical use case for that. (Well, until LLMs, perhaps!)

[awesome_dude]

I guess that I'm reading your initial post a little more strictly than you're meaning

[mcpeepants]

I think they mean something like (or what I think of as) “RPC calls, but with the flexibility to select a granular subset of the result based on one or more schemas”. This is how I’ve used graphql in the past at least.