Effective way to bulk update rows of table via GraphQL

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I find the way I implemented the bulk update of editable rows of my table quite complicated, and asked myself if there is a better way to accomplish it.

First, clicking save triggers this modified version of a JS code snippet I found somewhere in the retool docs:

var rows = tableQ.recordUpdates;
var errors = '';
var errorText = '';
var total = rows.length;

function runQuery (i) {
  
  if (i >= total) {
    console.log('Finished running all queries');
    getQDetails.trigger();
    return;
  }
  
  var questionId = tableQ.recordUpdates['0'].question.question_id;
  var questionName = (typeof tableQ.recordUpdates['0']['Custom Column 1'] === 'undefined') ? tableQ.recordUpdates['0'].question.question_name : tableQ.recordUpdates['0']['Custom Column 1'];
  var questionDesc = (typeof tableQ.recordUpdates['0']['Custom Column 2'] === 'undefined') ? tableQ.recordUpdates['0'].question.question_description : tableQ.recordUpdates['0']['Custom Column 2'];
  var questionTypeId = (typeof tableQ.recordUpdates['0']['Custom Column 3'] === 'undefined') ? tableQ.recordUpdates['0'].question.type.question_type_id : tableQ.recordUpdates['0']['Custom Column 3'];

  console.log('Running query for row', i,);

  updateQs.trigger({
    additionalScope: {
      questionId: questionId,
      questionName: questionName,
      questionDesc: questionDesc,
      questionTypeId: questionTypeId
    },
    // You can use the argument to get the data with the onSuccess function
    onSuccess: function(data) {
      runQuery(i + 1);
    },
    onFailure: function(error) {
      // Update the errorsText with all the errors encountered
      errors += 'Found error at line ' + i.toString() + ':  ' + error +  '\n\n';
      errorText.setValue(errors);
      runQuery(i + 1);
    }
  });
}

runQuery(0);

Because GraphQL gives an error when recordUpdate columns are undefined, I have to check and set them to the values already present.

This is the GraphQL mutation (via Hasura):

mutation update_a_question(

  $question_id:Int!,
  $question_name:String,
  $question_description:String,
  $question_type_id:Int

) {
  update_questions_by_pk(pk_columns: {question_id: $question_id}, _set: {
    
    question_name: $question_name,
    question_description: $question_description,
    question_type_id: $question_type_id
  
  }) {
    question_id
  }
}

Am I missing something or is this the only way to achieve this with GraphQL? It seems like an awful lot of repetition and code that's not dry.