It depends a lot on the product, how wide and deep your API is and the division of labor. Like are frontend and backend separate teams? do people do full stack?

It depends a lot on the product, how wide and deep your API is and the division of labor. Like are frontend and backend separate teams? do people do full stack? At some point there will be a need for some "bloated" API requests. GraphQL can help minimize how many of those you need.