> because you could've just had your small team of front end developers talk to your small team of back end developers to create exactly the optimized endpoints

> because you could've just had your small team of front end developers talk to your small team of back end developers to create exactly the optimized endpoints they needed to solve the problem. I think the OP (and many of the comments in this discussion) is about making a graphql endpoint for public consumption. if you are doing it solely for internal use, it does make sense that the "break even" point would be different.