It doesn’t support (and yes I asked the author, he refused to add support) tls connections to the database (despite that being a ~2 line change when the dB hand

It doesn’t support (and yes I asked the author, he refused to add support) tls connections to the database (despite that being a ~2 line change when the dB handle is opened) - because the code is a metric fuck ton of copy pasted code (ie the same exact code copy and pasted in dozens of files) patching it to support tls means we have a non trivial system in place to patch the code. It also tries to use a MySQL database as a queue/cache which is (predictably) terrible at larger volumes when you have eg a db cluster tuned for durability rather than raw throughput.