Your response is incredibly anecdotal (as is mine absolutely), and misleading.

GQL paved the way for a lot of ergonomics with our microservices.

And there's nothing stopping you from just adding pagination arguments to a field and handling them. Kinda exactly how you would in any other situation, you define and implement the thing.

Yeah I love it when a request turns into an N+1 query because the FE guys needed 1 more field.