I suppose we can now exchange roles. IMO with enough experience one can build an intuition that’s right 98% of the time on when resistance to change is wrong.
During my long and colorful consulting and contracting career Postgres has been quite fine for almost everything. No, really, and yes I said it. This is kind of the argument I truly hate but I am forced to admit it’s correct when we use the engineering’s golden rule i.e. use the right tool for the job: “We don’t need Elixir, our app is internal and we’ll never even have 30 concurrent users; Django / Rails / Express.JS is serving us fine”. Same with Postgres. Same with a lot of other stuff in the IT area… sadly.
The part I passionately will hate until my grave however is that this argument gets stretched like the proverbial cheese all the way to the surface of the Moon and is used as an universal defense that’s it’s never the time to move on.
