Sure you can make two queries concurrently, but does the server know you are doing that? With GeaphQL the server sees both queries at once, and can potentially

Sure you can make two queries concurrently, but does the server know you are doing that? With GeaphQL the server sees both queries at once, and can potentially optimize over that once someone notices that in their logs. And it expresses itself as a single network connection. I do agree though with your point about dependent queries, though I have only used GraphQL for internal apis so my experience doesn’t include that sort of problem.