Is there a word for a case of "I told you so" that went on for so long that it curdled from frustration, to despair, to cynicism, to a realignment of your understanding of the human project as something barely capable of tying its own shoes and making it out to the mailbox and back?

Wow was MongoDB really that bad?

A way to think about that question is to ask whether typelessness in general is bad because a lot of the schemaless databases come from that side of the divide.

I’d personally answer yes, but that’s because I believe that typed, schema-generates structures should be pushed all the way from the database to the typescript code on the front end. Changes become something you can deal with with high confidence and things like typos, etc. become impossible. Relational structures enforced in the database (and imho sadly lacking in the intervening layers which is something I’d like to get the time to deal with; though the FoubdationDB record layer certainly has an interesting if unexploited take on it) is a natural extension of this.

But there’s a whole other world where people just don’t want to be tied to constraints. I suspect it’s a personality thing.

how do you do this? tie it all the way from the DB to the client?

incidentally I believe this is the difference between being an engineer and being a product person. I straddle the line. in theory I want a strong type system so I can be confident about the future. in practice I don't want to pay the upfront cost and I'm more interested in shipping now and taking on debt.

Look at GraphQL. It lets you enforce a single schema from the front end down to the data layer.

In my company's product, we specify the data models as JSON Schema, and then generate the necessary language code -- we generate the GraphQL schema from it as well as Go data types, with some database glue. Our front end code is currently JavaScript, but we hope to migrate to TypeScript, which will make everything statically types all the way through.

(gRPC fills a similar role, though the web story is lacking. gRPC is brilliant for APIs between backend services, but browser support is not there yet. GraphQL is more convenient for the app-facing layers.)