Comment by girvo

> Then ends up with frontend that's tightly coupled to the representation at the time as well, when "in the context of A I also need to know E" could've been a specialized type hiding those details.

GraphQL clients are built to do exactly that, Relay originally and Apollo in the last year, if I’m understanding what you’re saying: any component that touches E doesn’t have to care about how you got to it, fragment masking makes short work