Yep :P For a fun fact, CockroachDB was actually started by ex-Squares, so we're definitely very familiar with this exact same argument internally, back in the

Yep :P For a fun fact, CockroachDB was actually started by ex-Squares, so we're definitely very familiar with this exact same argument internally, back in the day when neither CockroachDB nor Spanner existed as a viable option :)