Your comment sounds like wild projection in itself. Most skepticism is based on wisdom and experience gained over years of working in the industry and noticing

Your comment sounds like wild projection in itself. Most skepticism is based on wisdom and experience gained over years of working in the industry and noticing the patterns of 100s of past companies and projects. Timescale when it first launched was little more than an automatic-sharding extension for Postgres with some convenience functions for handling time data. It was competing with Postgres itself which added native partitions, other sharding extensions like Citus, and an entire class of column-oriented relational databases that have become much more capable. Timescale today is very different and has added a lot of the missing functionality to make it a very attractive database option, especially the columnstore/compression feature mentioned in that first HN comment.