The site 42papers.com that serving this link is build with Super Graph a GraphQL to SQL compiler. Tech like this makes GraphQL clearly the easier, faster and better option. I built Super Graph since I wanted something better than REST while building apps and did not want to go down the rabbit hole of GraphQL frameworks where I would still need to write and maintain all the database query code for the app.
I started out not liking GraphQL cause it didn't really reduce the code I needed to write but on digging deeper it seemed to be the best way to represent a data query from an app now only if something could convert that into SQL automagically. This was the motivation for Super Graph.