I hated GraphQL and all the hype around it. Until I finally got how to use it what for.

Same I thought about nest.js, Angular.

All of them hard to understand by heart at beginning, later (a few years), you feel it and get value.

Sounds stupid, but I tried to reimplement all the benefits using class transformers, zod, custom validators, all others packages. And always end up: “alright, graphql does this out of the box”.

REST is nice, same as express.js if you create non-production code. Reality is you need to love this boilerplate. AI writes this anyway.

Is it user friendly for all the apps. It’s not. Is it easy to understand? No. For beginners? No. For legacy corps? No. For public APIs? No.