Your free to your opinion, but I respectfully do not share your values & sense of collective ownership over remote, far off software I can't see, shape, control or rework.

The most notable feature of Neon, that makes it so exceptionally smart, is that it takes the humanity's existing first best choice default-go-to database, by a country mile, and layers in really smart decoupling of storage to help it scale. Reinventing things from scratch can be a win, but that this is already a well known quantity, much loved & cherished & used by all, hacked by all, grown by all is a planet-sized huge plus mark.

I think you vastly overrate the broad availability of alternatives to this, of potential starting places others might explore. Most of your list is dominated by proprietary whatever. Even skipping that, yes, there is a ton of novelty & promise, the potential for breakthroughs. But this is starting with the best, and pushing it into the cloud-layer, into the troposphere.