For what it’s worth this sentence stands out…
Our intent is to respect, evolve, and integrate key concepts from several existing languages including graph extensions to SQL. (My take away is that this is speaking directly to GraphQL)
To reframe my question…Is dgraph participating in the shaping of the standard? I also think compatibility with SQL is important, partly why I brought up TypeORM after the Tour of Dgraph. That tool could allow multiple database connections, ie graph and RDBMS, and be agnostic to specific databases.