>It is the people that screw up, release with big flaws that the customer then pressures the company about, that are heralded as heroes and bacon savers when the fix those flaws. After 3 years and as many releases.

There's going to be a ton of survivorship bias even with them. It just goes to show that big marketing budgets are such a competitive advantage that can outweigh not actually being any good.

I'd seriously like somebody with a passing knowledge of data integrity who believes the tech industry is meritocratic to explain what they think the success of mongo is all about.