Had an annoying issue with the GraphQL translations.
After looking into it this was the right answer that made things work again: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61770306/while-working-with-the-magento-2-graphql-it-seems-that-the-string-translation-do/62723418#62723418
I poured it into a module to simply plug and play.
Place translations into i18n and those will get translated, nothing else!
Therefore make this as a base graphql translations module with the graphql translations and it'll stay nice and tidy.