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They do have a good product, but "they accumulate tech debt for years, all their devs leave, now they can't move away" is the story of the place I worked at a few years ago. The database was such a disorganized, inconsistent mess that no-one had the stomach (or budget) to try and get off it.

Basically every MongoDB I've come across; same story, different faces.

This is maybe the biggest reason to have a RDBMS, enforcing discipline to keep your data clean. Ultimately this trumps almost everything else.

Impossible! It's not based on sqlite, postgres or written in rust, so it must be terrible!

I never understood this argument, there are many great products running on Java, PHP, Ruby, JavaScript... All of these languages have a "crowd" that hates them for historic and/or esoteric reasons.

Great products are in my opinion a function of skill and care. The only benefit a "popular" tool or language gets you is a greater developer pool for hiring.

These days almost all the alternatives do 90% of what they cover in a way that’s either using your pre-existing tech stack, or just net-better.

There’s probably some extremely specific niche use-cases where it works well, but I suspect they’re pretty few-and-far-between.