What's with the GraphQL luddism on HN? I'm as much opposed to adding more incidental complexity to the frontend as the next guy, but GraphQL has objective purpose and makes a lot of things much simpler than they would be without it.

Learning new things and doing things better than they were done a year before is an essential part of being a professional software engineer, it's what makes this field hard and that's why we're paid so much. It's what makes us able to tackle so much added complexity of the world, new use cases, new platforms and paradigm shifts over the years. To me, it's also what makes it so challenging and rewarding.