My point was, that they've not done that, is because it wouldn't help. This is an architectural problem, which even if they had the massive expensive brains be

My point was, that they've not done that, is because it wouldn't help. This is an architectural problem, which even if they had the massive expensive brains behind something like mysql on their team they couldn't fix it. (at least, I'm guessing, I think this kinda architecture doesn't scale even if they could kick the can down the road a few times..)