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I remember well how in the early 2000s everybody wanted to get away from their relational systems and NoSQL (Not only SQL) databases were the latest fashion. Looks like we have come full cycle.

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A fad that set back the industry by a decade.

Not sure on that, it made some of the SQL solutions innovate quite a bit.

What did relational databases need from all the document DBs du jour? Broken transactions? Lack of ACID guarantees? Devil-may-care schemas?

yep, the last one -- Postgres' support for json / jsonb is way better now.

Relational databases have also evolved. With JSON types you can now easily mix relations and documents.

Couldn’t you do that with the XML type? I believe that was added to Postgres before MongoDB existed.

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