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> People wanted RethinkDB to be fast on workloads they actually tried, rather than “real world” workloads we suggested

Uh no, It was slow on real world workloads, you just don't want to admit it.

I think that's his point. That's why he put "real world" in scare quotes.

I dont think so because he could have said it plainly since it was generally slow, but instead he implied that the use cases users were trying weren't "real world" use cases that fit within what a database of its class should be able to do. Hes not being totally honest about the performance issues and how much of an impact it had on their failure.

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