[geocar]

I think you're looking at it wrong. It's not a popularity contest; I've seen billion dollar companies use fucking stupid tooling as well, but they still have the right processes where they don't lose data.

Mongo, on the other hand, loses data.

[lotyrin]

In non-tech centric large orgs, it seems you frequently do not have the talent required to be be both risk averse and productive at the same time, so "IT" becomes a risk averse and non-productive political structure from which springs an "alternative IT" rebellion group (if the initiative is lead from above) or many little cowboy teams (if the initiative is driven from below) and these will be "productive" at the expense of having no processes for avoiding stupid risks that, amongst other things, can lead to data loss.