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Mongo reminds me of Tesla - early products were shoddy but had incredible hype.

"It's incredibly fast!" "It's web scale!" "It'll be able to drive itself cross country in a couple of months!"

And I think the unfounded/exaggerated hype bothered a lot of us, but like Tesla, the actual product seems to have improved quite a lot as they've had time and resources to throw at it. So sure, some of us remember Teslas and MongoDB from 2013 and scoff, but the current reality is much different.