Early MySQL versions made egregious design choices like quietly ignoring missing foreign keys and enum typos, truncating long strings, and randomly choosing rows from groups.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230922210124/https://grimoire....
https://web.archive.org/web/20230922210124/https://grimoire....
My only conclusion is that the majority of devs don’t actually read documentation, and rely purely on the last blog post they read to influence their infrastructure decisions.
Most devs just go with whatever the influencer du jour says is good.
"Nobody ever got fired for choosing insert_currently_hyped_tech_here"