yup. the purpose of couchdb's original attachment support was for "couchapps". The notion that you'd serve your entire application from couchdb. Attachments wer

yup. the purpose of couchdb's original attachment support was for "couchapps". The notion that you'd serve your entire application from couchdb. Attachments were therefore for html, javascript, image, font assets, which are all relatively small. The attachment support in CouchDB <= 3.x is a bit more capable than that due to its implementation, but storing large binaries was not strictly a goal of the project.