> Am I missing something? Yes, you are using your company's practices to discount the general benefit of typed data stores. You are also trading safety and use

> Am I missing something? Yes, you are using your company's practices to discount the general benefit of typed data stores. You are also trading safety and usefulness at use/read time for ease at write time which is almost never correct. If your schema mutates frequently, you need to cope. Fearing schema alterations, because of your migration setup is bad IMO (there are plenty of other reasons to fear them though of course). This is how schemas become stale and data analysts (or just other devs) have no clue what they're doing with a schema because developers short-sightedly refuse to improve/refactor schema because of business processes.