Graphql is by far the most painful DX and least productive thing I've seen cargo-culted. Like most things there's a time and place for Graphql but I think it's vastly overused.

For backend services in particular literally anything else is probably a better choice - rest, grpc, soap, a socket. I honestly don't know why more people don't give twirp a shot.

https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp