I don't think this is limited to devs or databases. You see it sometimes in Firefox/Chrome threads along the lines of "firefox sucks", "when did you last use it

I don't think this is limited to devs or databases. You see it sometimes in Firefox/Chrome threads along the lines of "firefox sucks", "when did you last use it?", "4 years ago". Mongo in particular had marketing plays that were quite deceitful; that particular flavor of distate can run deeper than some tech issues. disclaimer: I use mongo in my day to day as a primary DB store.