[toyg]

It's the usual divide between people who actually know how databases work, and hence want to do more stuff there (because it will likely be faster and more robust); and people who don't know (and don't want to know) anything about databases, and hence would rather use them as dumb stores of basic data.

I've been in each camp at one time or another, since being db-agnostic makes sense in some cases (libraries, products) and not in others (websites, services).