Yup, honeymoon is over. Now is the time for the adult, long-term, and productive relationship.

Exactly! Once its working, it can be very healthy. And especially on the client. For a very, very, very long time. We started using GraphQL at the very beginning, back in 2015, and the way it has scaled over time -- across backend and frontend -- has worked amazingly well. Going on 10 years now and no slowing down.