The high valuation could be an index of the number of failing products happily using the tech :)
If my boss tells me to use MongoDB tomorrow or live on the street despite my advice to the contrary, I will use MongoDB happily. I may look for a new job in my free time if using MongoDB makes me miserable, but I certainly won't be living on the street...
And quitting your job (as you now point out, but didn't originally) is much different from "choosing to be homeless".
That's a bit too dramatic.
Next time, just say "I'd rather quit than work with MongoDB again", and you won't have this problem.
Fair point... “I would quit rather than work with MongoDB again” is more accurate, but still encapsulates your point.
The point I was trying to make earlier and did in a way overly dramatic for you is that I’d never take a tech job again if it meant I had to use Mongo.
For example, I used Mongo back in the early days. Was terrible. I will now never use it again. I don't care if it shoots lasers. It is dead to me.
Obviously the happy developer count is way more than the hate it for life count, so I am the odd man out here. Perhaps many users never actually had many GB of data or had to deal with the data loss side of things?