The point is that without geospatial features, you can still use other strategies like lat/long or geohash and they will all have the same performance. The log

The point is that without geospatial features, you can still use other strategies like lat/long or geohash and they will all have the same performance. The logic (built-in geospatial or hand-written sql) is irrelevant to the performance comparison and GP's post that Postgres was the only one that could query quickly. Do you disagree with that? If not then I'm not sure what your argument is.