If your data store is nothing but a persistence layer for an application, perhaps that makes sense. In many companies the need to regularly access the database

If your data store is nothing but a persistence layer for an application, perhaps that makes sense. In many companies the need to regularly access the database for analytics and BI is a thing; this isn't limited to $B companies. Most of the tooling available works best with SQL databases. (Though the BI connector at https://docs.mongodb.com/bi-connector/current/ https://docs.mongodb.com/bi-connector/current/ looks interesting for this purpose)