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This mirrors my experience. By making the opinionated choice for Postgres it is possible to use e.g functions and triggers to replace a lot of code that would normally live in the backend. It is quite common to come from ORM-land and treat the database as just a dumb tablestore with some keys. Which does not do justice to the incredible featureset of Postgres. All of that makes it possible to avoid writing a lot of boilerplate and was a huge productivity boost for me. YMMV ofc.