I agree but also I think I could be clearer about the key advantage of the distributed many dbs model… it’s that I don’t have to care if people are good at anyt

I agree but also I think I could be clearer about the key advantage of the distributed many dbs model… it’s that I don’t have to care if people are good at anything that you said :). If teams want to do dumb things with their schema, fine, that’s on them and they’ll have to deal with the consequences. If it matters, they’ll learn and get better. If they want to buy their way out of it with their latency and infra budget instead, that’s honestly fine too. With many smaller databases owned separately, the blast radius of bad db decisions is small/local.