This is my read of the history as well. This is also the motivation that would lead me to advocate for adopting GraphQL for a product. Moreso than a technical

This is my read of the history as well. This is also the motivation that would lead me to advocate for adopting GraphQL for a product. Moreso than a technical decision, it is an organizational decision regarding resource trade-offs, and where the highest iteration or code churn is expected to be located.