Doesn't seem redundant to me. Even if you can multiplex requests, batches still have certain advantages, e.g. - compression is often more efficient with large

Doesn't seem redundant to me. Even if you can multiplex requests, batches still have certain advantages, e.g. - compression is often more efficient with larger payloads - can reduce per-request overheads, e.g. do authentication once rather than X times - easier to coalesce multiple queries, e.g. merge similar requests to enable data retrieval via a bulk query, instead of X individual queries