I had the pleasure of working with Apollo + GraphQL for the last 2 years and I don’t understand the hype. I haven’t seen anything so over engineered and complex

I had the pleasure of working with Apollo + GraphQL for the last 2 years and I don’t understand the hype. I haven’t seen anything so over engineered and complex in my whole 20 year long career. To make things worse I quickly found out all the problems GraphQL tries to solve are still there. Like over-fetching is around the corner if you don’t pay attention. REST on the other hand feels really straightforward, maybe easier to mess up but also much easier to fix. I’d take Redux over Apollo anytime even though Redux is dying according to many.