All good points, but there are other reasons to store images in the DB. One is making it much easier to copy graphs of data, e.g copying an account with a bunc

All good points, but there are other reasons to store images in the DB. One is making it much easier to copy graphs of data, e.g copying an account with a bunch of attached users, widgets and their images. When everything's in the DB this is just "insert into ... Select from". When images are held in e.g s3 this gets an order of magnitude harder.