Oh yeah, this trend is toxic. It's a cost-saving technique. GraphQL is another toxic technology that relieves the responsibility of designing the API to users

Oh yeah, this trend is toxic. It's a cost-saving technique. GraphQL is another toxic technology that relieves the responsibility of designing the API to users instead of the application owners. May as well just give folks access to your DB and have them run SQL queries themselves. Look! No need for a UI. All this at the expense of the software engineer that has to manage all this complexity themselves.