If MSSQL wasn't tied to the Microsoft ecosystem, I don't think it would get such a bad rap - When I was a dev on the Microsoft product stack I found MSSQL quite

If MSSQL wasn't tied to the Microsoft ecosystem, I don't think it would get such a bad rap - When I was a dev on the Microsoft product stack I found MSSQL quite a joy to use - reasonably fast, pretty powerful admin tools (SSMS) and pretty easy to interface with as long as you stayed within the MS ecosystem. I did find myself missing SSMS specifically when I moved to non MS stack development, since Postgres' 'official' open source options aren't nearly as robust. There are a few proprietary tools that can rival SSMS for Postgres, but then you are back into the realm of proprietariness.