Most of the statements in here are biased by Percona's relationship with MySQL. I mean you could complain that it's a fork; but who are you to bitch it's free

Most of the statements in here are biased by Percona's relationship with MySQL. I mean you could complain that it's a fork; but who are you to bitch it's free software. If you paid for MySQL enterprise and they forked to something else and your license is worthless then you have a case. So it's not MySQL 8.0 and it doesn't have the same features as MySQL; it's obvious that the developers of MariaDB don't have the same mindset (and possibly same user audience) as MySQL does. Lastly most people use MySQL because they don't know better. You read a book about LAMP and it tells you to install MySQL; you really didn't make a choice. Lots of applications depend on MySQL and don't work on $othersql so you get forced dependencies. You could say MySQL used their clout to try and force their world vision of dominance. This wouldn't be far from the truth.