This true observation gets at a variation on the point of The Famous Article (TFA): yes, but what reasonable level of effort shall be applied toward hypothetic

This true observation gets at a variation on the point of The Famous Article (TFA): yes, but what reasonable level of effort shall be applied toward hypothetical 'problems'? As you note, sticking a whole database into an attribute could be a design element for an application. I'd always thought that stronger type systems had to do with performance and storage optimization, but TFA didn't delve into that.