> Your naive GraphQL API, on the other hand, will let me query large chunks of your database at a time No it won't, because it's not tied directly to the datab

> Your naive GraphQL API, on the other hand, will let me query large chunks of your database at a time No it won't, because it's not tied directly to the database and does not allow for arbitrary queries. Any of the "aha!" gotchas you mention are the same issues as you could have with REST, JSON-API, etc. I'm sorry you don't understand what I'm pointing out, but thanks for the convo though.