Postgres is not hard to use correctly and the implication is that Uber didn't make an attempt to clear up certain misunderstandings, not that they wouldn't have been able to. It's not moronic to succumb to using talking points or FUD you've seen in blogs or incompletely-informed personal bias in making decisions. It's just human. Since people are going to keep looking up literature on the topic here's a new higher-quality piece of literature.