15 years ago I was a big fan of this chaining methods pattern. These days I don’t like it anymore. Especially when it comes to unit-testing and implementing fake objects it becomes quite cumbersome to setup the exact same interface.
unfortunately it's unavoidable if you want to preserve type safety. I did consider parsing Cypher in typescript types, but it's not worth the effort and it's not possible to do safely.
Why not with a pipe that returns a function, the type of which is determined by the args of the pipe? That is possible to make typesafe in TS. That way you can have both APIs where the chained version is just wrapping successive pipe calls.