[undoware]

Yes. But it is demo code, meaning that the use case isn't production, it's education. And the UX of education is a lot worse when you have to begin by saying, "this will look different from yours" and "here's a whole extra layer of complication I'm going to introduce, but don't worry it's a best practice."

[daleharvey]

Exactly, the username / password combination is most certainly to make life simpler for a demo, would never expect someone to do that in real code.

I plan on extending the getting started tutorial with an extention that does a database oer user when logged in (via persona), it actually wont make the tutorial much more complex and gets very close to what it should look like in production (https://github.com/daleharvey/couch-persona)