Lambda School is the biggest mistake. The most interesting part of Lambda School is that MOST (if not all) claim to have learned to code by themselves.
I'm yet to see a decent programmer who attributes their skill level to their school and not the books they read, the hours they practiced and stackoverflow / google.
According to the post, the answer is: you should prefer to painfully rebuild everything the GraphQL specification simplifies using another standard.
If this is not the answer, maybe the title should be "Why not use Apollo".
Also, now that the specification is widely used and the problems it solves have obvious solutions, it's easy to tell how to reimplement those practices using another standard.
The ecosystem only exists because the specification and the great thing is the many things you can achieve with it, not the tools that are already available.
I'm yet to see a decent programmer who attributes their skill level to their school and not the books they read, the hours they practiced and stackoverflow / google.