For sure, but my beef here (as every time I hear this) is that it's taking an exception and turning it into a fear-mongering boogie-man story that paralyses peo

For sure, but my beef here (as every time I hear this) is that it's taking an exception and turning it into a fear-mongering boogie-man story that paralyses people into inaction when they (often) have serious performance bottlenecks in their database that need to be addressed. So often with performance it's down to the basics not being followed, and often this comes down to the lack of an appropriate index.