Well, I don't expect distributed ACID transactions to ever become a thing developers expect. I see people try them, but leave unhappy because of the unexpectedl

Well, I don't expect distributed ACID transactions to ever become a thing developers expect. I see people try them, but leave unhappy because of the unexpectedly bad latency and performance. Hence the lack of growth in trends. Furthermore, eventual consistency was never problematic, it was just a myth. It was never hard, certainly not harder than ACID transactions in all those MVCC systems. So not much to benefit from for an average application. And today with all the research in strong eventual consistency applications can have all that correctness without coordination and without sacrificing performance, latency and availability. This is where the opportunity for distributed databases still exists, performance and latency are sellable.