> Be careful with anyone with a take that says some technology is 100% bad always.

THIS 100%.

> It takes very high skill to use GraphQL well. But if you pull it off it can be an incredibly productive system that is friendly to integration and refactoring.

I could not agree more. It's like any other piece of tech: once you internalize the mental model and are able to translate those abstractions in your language of choice everything clicks. And then it's hard to imagine going back to something more "primitive" (i.e. what's conventionally called "REST").

After building "RESTful" APIs for years I can confidently say GraphQL (with a decent implementation) is a step up across almost every possible dimension (performance aside because of the additional parsing).