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- It scales up fine for 99+% of companies, and for the ones that need to scale beyond that there are battle tested solutions like Vitess.
- It is what people know already so they don't have to learn anything new.
Same reason why people still make new websites in PHP I guess. It's not fancy but it works fine and won't bring any unwelcome surprises.
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- It scales up fine for 99+% of companies, and for the ones that need to scale beyond that there are battle tested solutions like Vitess.
- It is what people know already so they don't have to learn anything new.
Same reason why people still make new websites in PHP I guess. It's not fancy but it works fine and won't bring any unwelcome surprises.