6NF gives flexibility since every thing is decoupled until you bring it in. It makes evolving the schema easier, makes optimizations easier. I also have a hunch

6NF gives flexibility since every thing is decoupled until you bring it in. It makes evolving the schema easier, makes optimizations easier. I also have a hunch that with such a focus it would be easier to find an interesting design space for new relational programming models since it’s, in a sense, “purer”. But I guess it depends on the use case. For normal oltp style save/fetch entity 3NF makes sense. But it kind of makes sense in the way an ORM would make sense. Which makes you question if you really need relational database at all.