Yes, but also every 3 out of 4 people here have applied to work for Google, and most got rejected, so that can contribute to the negative sentiment. Spanner is

Yes, but also every 3 out of 4 people here have applied to work for Google, and most got rejected, so that can contribute to the negative sentiment. Spanner is a pretty solid database, it checks all the boxes: consistency, geographic replication and transactional updates are not present at the same time in most large scale db's out there.