>You are bouncing back between it is ony for startups and it requires enterprise level maintenance. It can be used easily for both.

No, I never said that. You are the one that brought FB into the equation.

Just because it can be used for something does not mean that it should.

I said that that approach doesn't scale well, especially for frequent data/model changes. For small apps, where as you say, you have few data changes, by all means embed your database as closely as possible to you end user code.

Sqlite inside a c app or electron, e.g. No need for any API at all! Just raw query access.

Its nice GQL to generate stuff for small non-changing web apps, I'm sure. But once you get into more performance oriented, data-migration-style stuff, if there's not good support for changing the data and reacting to the environment, then adding complexity (GQL) to an already complex situation is a Bad Idea.

You never said what this 1% was, autogeneration is not a bonus when you already have to manually filter and route things. The simpler solution gets you there as well, with less fuss.

You think you don't have page specific apis, but if you are doing the manual filtering, then you still have them, you are just "hiding" them inside another language, that doesn't have a clear benefit? At least you can't say what it is, without going in circles, another sign GQL is probably ultimately a garbage technology...