> it is expected

It's also expected that my train is going to be late, but we can lament this condition, instead of resigning ourselves to it.

The initial question of why did you make something iteratively better (in terms of size). It's only 20KB. Can be used to stop progress in any field by replacing the keywords.

I would hate to use something built by people with the attitude that compromising on performance when you don't need to is OK because it falls in line with current expected ranges.

18% of the Alexa Top 10K sites grew by 1MB+ from July 2017 - July 18. (source: https://twitter.com/katiehempenius/status/113320912700037939...)

Ignoring the impact of libraries you send to the frontend will lead to death by a thousand cuts.

How many of those Top 10k Alexa sites are full-blown web applications that need GraphQL in the first place?

It might be expected, but I have to admit, there is a certain joy to using a website that loads instantaneously (like Hacker News). Whether or not that joy translates into additional revenue to justify the costs is another question entirely...