Sure it did, it provided a default charset that wasn’t latin_swedish_ci. Clearly I am joking, but the selling point was supposed to be that it provided a lean,

Sure it did, it provided a default charset that wasn’t latin_swedish_ci. Clearly I am joking, but the selling point was supposed to be that it provided a lean, mean, modernized MySQL replacement. I think the problem was that replacements under the hood don’t necessarily translate to an improved UX.