No one should underestimate the power of employing a system's maintainer. I'm sure one feels much more confident knowing that the primary author of the filesyst

No one should underestimate the power of employing a system's maintainer. I'm sure one feels much more confident knowing that the primary author of the filesystem is available full-time to resolve any issues they may encounter. It's very common for MegaTechCos to hire maintainers like this, but us in the hoi polloi need to be cautious not to jump headfirst into a situation where we can't call upon the experts/inventors to get us out of any jam. We have to rely on our own abilities, the mailing list archives, and hopefully some relevant random blog posts that aren't too outdated. This should be taken into consideration much more often than it is. If anything, maintainer employment by a MegaTechCo should nix out their implied endorsement of the technology rather than taken as proof that it's viable.