Absolutely agree, it’s why I’m so hesitant to let myself like CockroachDB, I’m not a raw SQL person, database choices are a huge investment for me. PostgreSQL and SQLite are the only databases I can recommend without hesitation.

I’ll admit I definitely fell all the way into “loving” RethinkDB. I still have some sticker bundles from a meetup group merch package. It’s been an agonisingly slow recovery from the company’s demise, but I still hold onto some hope that it can recover and become a multi-stakeholder database with a steady development like PostgreSQL for the horizontal scale document database world.