Having had experience with it from a "backend for the frontend" perspective, GraphQL is nice because it gives you an API for free and does partly decouple the f

Having had experience with it from a "backend for the frontend" perspective, GraphQL is nice because it gives you an API for free and does partly decouple the frontend team. At the same time, with most backend GraphQL frameworks the decoupling will be very illusory, as in practice you'll have to tune the backend to the frontend use cases or you'll just end up with a ton of N+1 queries and terrible performance. In other words, application-specific http endpoints have their advantages and let you have fine tuned queries for each use case, which makes sense for app-style frontends.