I hate these kinds of articles, however, I do recognise that people are allowed their opinions, which is good. But these sorts of articles take a very polarised view of the world.

> Does this tool solve a real problem for us > Do we thoroughly understand the tradeoffs

Well, no. But neither did running JS on the server (along with numerous other similar examples). I've used MongoDB plenty of times before (in production with 1 issue to date) and I absolutely will again.