It took me a long time to realize this but yes asking people to just open and write to files (or S3) is in fact asking a lot. What you describe makes sense, of

It took me a long time to realize this but yes asking people to just open and write to files (or S3) is in fact asking a lot. What you describe makes sense, of course, but few can build it without it being drastically worse than abusing a database like postgres. It's a sad state of affairs.