RethinkDB CEO here. Don't worry. During early stages of ReQL design I suggested string representation for commands (that start with the dollar sign) and the eng

RethinkDB CEO here. Don't worry. During early stages of ReQL design I suggested string representation for commands (that start with the dollar sign) and the engineering team kicked me out of the room because that would have opened RethinkDB up to injection attacks. If I suggest something like write durability off by default (or something of the sort) I'll have a full mutiny on my hands. We're systems people. You won't get another Mongo.