> but having to write 5-deep queries (because of the edge indirections) by hand is way more of a pain in the ass than performing two GET requests with a few par

> but having to write 5-deep queries (because of the edge indirections) by hand is way more of a pain in the ass than performing two GET requests with a few parameters munged in the URLs. And then I still have to go and retrieve the information 5-deep in the resulting document. I usually write my queries in GraphiQL (check some boxes) and then paste them into the app after I have them working right.