GraphQL was "promising" something because it was a thing by a single company. HATEOAS didn't need to "promise" anything since it was just describing already ex

GraphQL was "promising" something because it was a thing by a single company. HATEOAS didn't need to "promise" anything since it was just describing already existing protocols and capabilities that you can see in the links I posted. And that's how you got POST-only GraphQL which for years has been busily reinventing half of HTTP