If I hadn't seen so many dev teams eschew constraints and triggers in favor of broken client code being allowed to screw up the data, I would agree to the polit

If I hadn't seen so many dev teams eschew constraints and triggers in favor of broken client code being allowed to screw up the data, I would agree to the political element easily. But in practice, the ignorance is so great, I can't even be sure there is a political choice being made.