It's also a strange comment: Enterprise DBs are usually run on enterprise-grade hardware in production. To be sure, you can test them on consumer-grade hardware

It's also a strange comment: Enterprise DBs are usually run on enterprise-grade hardware in production. To be sure, you can test them on consumer-grade hardware, but if most folks are going to run this stuff in production using enterprise-grade SSDs, the software should be optimized for that hardware. Mechanical sympathy is an important software engineering practice.