I'm not sure how this differs from some of the more fully thought through hypermedia frameworks. Although it is nice that there's convention for flattening incl

I'm not sure how this differs from some of the more fully thought through hypermedia frameworks. Although it is nice that there's convention for flattening included linked resources down to something a bit more manageable. For me, GraphQL really shines when going beyond CRUD. In my experience, many client applications aren't just querying and filtering, they're acting as a gateway for complex server processes and need to present a lot of data at once. These advantages aren't going to come through in simple CRUD examples. GraphQL, in its current state, has some frustrating limitations, but I still think the future looks more like it than REST.