That doesn’t mean they like it now, and more importantly it doesn’t mean it was actually the best choice at the time. I used to be on a team that used Mongo fo

That doesn’t mean they like it now, and more importantly it doesn’t mean it was actually the best choice at the time. I used to be on a team that used Mongo for a relational database because Mongo was trendy at one time. So all joins had to be done in the application layer.