Previously using HATEOAS, gathering large amounts of data, say some kind of reporting dashboard, required a great deal of seperate HTTP requests, it was far les

Previously using HATEOAS, gathering large amounts of data, say some kind of reporting dashboard, required a great deal of seperate HTTP requests, it was far less efficient in I/O and performance than without. Anyway, I find GraphQL provides this solution very kindly, I can ask questions about the great big world, and request only specific fields, like a user's name, the names of their 10 closest friends and their availability status, all in a single call. With HATEOAS this could be 10 to 20 calls, and maybe contain extra information in the response I'm not necessarily interested in.