If I want to return a combination of data, for instance a user object but also the count of its friendships and comments, should I always make a payload type for that? Or is there another way that is better?

Object (payload) types work well. Is there a pain point that makes you look for something else?

not really, just starting out, so just trying to be mindful of best practices, when using graphcool I remember it was just all together in one object, so just wanted to be sure. Thanks for the reply!