I cannot make an expert assessment myself but for one thing mysql is occasionally picked precisely because of its HA story. It was the case in a couple past jo

I cannot make an expert assessment myself but for one thing mysql is occasionally picked precisely because of its HA story. It was the case in a couple past jobs of mine, back then I didn't particularly appreciate it but now I might see it with different eyes. Also commercial databases do have a better HA story - at least that's their reputation. The current status quo is that everything should be free, but obviously that has a fundamental contradiction with being a professional software developer in the first place.