I literally just wrote a blog post which explains the kind of problem they're trying to solve and why any solution is just choosing where the pain is. https://

I literally just wrote a blog post which explains the kind of problem they're trying to solve and why any solution is just choosing where the pain is. https://gtowey.blogspot.com/2026/07/why-are-databases-so-hard.html https://gtowey.blogspot.com/2026/07/why-are-databases-so-har... Their paper talks about a lot of the same things I do, and if you read both, you can see the nature of the tradeoffs they make and where the pain points are still hiding.