Did the author forget that we had this entire "NoSQL" period that lasted well over a decade, where SQL was the worst thing ever, and everyone kept coming with t

Did the author forget that we had this entire "NoSQL" period that lasted well over a decade, where SQL was the worst thing ever, and everyone kept coming with the superior alternatives to SQL? What happened? What happened is many of those NoSQL products started adding SQL syntax and features to their databases, others disappears, and yet others specialized into niches where they don't compete with SQL RDBMS at all, which remains the primary database paradigm and language. So those are the facts. If someone still believes they know better, put up or shut up.