To me that sounds like wilfully ignoring all the caching and concurrency opportunities you could have in addition to forcing all data through a single point of

To me that sounds like wilfully ignoring all the caching and concurrency opportunities you could have in addition to forcing all data through a single point of congestion. At least caching can be solved somewhat, but not on the protocol level. I think GraphQL is great for applications where there are no apparent caching or concurrency options.