Look, the alphabet soup of technologies that we read about here on Hacker News don't really represent the reality of what gets put into production and actually works. There are really only about four or five stacks that really matter, I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out which ones they are.
Relational databases are the result of 50+ years of computer science research. They're beautiful, focused, precise. They're pretty damn close to perfect. They are a solved problem. They're one of those few stable tools I was talking about wanting so badly. So what do we do? Throw it away. I'm too disgusted to continue.
I've heard some interesting takes in sister companies. Just a few months ago someone explained how continuous delivery is a pipedream and nobody does it because it's unfeasible, but they would like to not have every release (literally) signed off by management. I guess my work in the past 4 years was all a lie.