It's less a criticism of GraphQL-the-specification and more a matter of GraphQL-the-community failing to provide any reference implementation for the most basic

It's less a criticism of GraphQL-the-specification and more a matter of GraphQL-the-community failing to provide any reference implementation for the most basic of usecases--the 95+% of apps that use ORMs. That said, GraphQL-the-spec does highlight a key ORM weakness--it's not so easy to dynamically construct complex join queries with decently-optimized fetch plans.