In terms of ease of building a query (and resulting ease of comprehension of that query) that will give you the exact response structure you want from the clien

In terms of ease of building a query (and resulting ease of comprehension of that query) that will give you the exact response structure you want from the client-side, the two are not comparable, there is no blind-eye turning in this regard as far as I can tell. But I'd love to see an REST-based GraphiQL equivalent to prove this wrong: https://github.com/graphql/graphiql https://github.com/graphql/graphiql