I think "half-assed" is rather harsh. As far as i'm concerned, GraphQL is revolutionising front-end component-based development, and solving a large number of A

I think "half-assed" is rather harsh. As far as i'm concerned, GraphQL is revolutionising front-end component-based development, and solving a large number of API/platform issues. It's not an exaggeration to say that rarely a day goes by when I don't overhear a conversation describing a problem that simply wouldn't exist if they were using GraphQL. It's not a new idea, there's a lot of prior art, but GraphQL is starting to gain serious traction - with a lot of big name adopters. You're right in that Graphcool is essentially a GraphQL-server-as-a-service, personally I don't have any use for it, but i'm glad it exists.