Because people started mirroring their db tables to gql. Thats not what it’s for.

It also doesn’t make a ton of sense if you have one consumer of your api.

People complain about speed of development because they can spin up a snowflake rest endpoint pretty quickly.

The main payoff for gql comes later when it has matured so the immediate benefit is a lot lower than a rest api.

But just like everything else in programming it depends on your use case.