Excellent post, that sums it up my concerns quite nicely. To expand on 3, and what others have said, RethinkDB is solid technology, and is a joy to maintain, a

Excellent post, that sums it up my concerns quite nicely. To expand on 3, and what others have said, RethinkDB is solid technology, and is a joy to maintain, and even scale, compared with MongoDB. To those of us that have used it and depend on it, losing it would feel like a step backwards. It really does feel like the good guys have lost, in that respect. The story isn't over yet, and hopefully it lives on as a popular and well-maintained open source project.