It was often the best choice for getting a product up and running fast and rapid iteration for exactly the reasons you mention. Once the schema solidified, it s

It was often the best choice for getting a product up and running fast and rapid iteration for exactly the reasons you mention. Once the schema solidified, it stopped being the right choice. We (ZeroTier) experienced the same thing but with RethinkDB, a similar schema-less database. We outgrew it when we needed something more solid and more reliable and we had a pretty settled schema.