As an ops guy: You’re absolutely right.

For better or worse I’m constantly annoyed by developers trying be “special”. Most projects involve stuffing things into a database, calling a webservice and reading stuff back. Don’t try to be clever about it, just stick to one type of database and Springboot so we can all go home and sleep with no incidents.

But there are projects which really do need to be different, and we don’t deal with them well, and they don’t scale.