Must you really draw conclusions about the suitability of PostgreSQL or MySQL for all users based on your limited perspective/niche needs?
> If you're a developer, a database is just a database.
[screams internally]
At bigger companies they might abstract it out but your gonna get a slow query one day and be tuning sql or something.
You're way out of date.
There's no storage concerns with the default since 2010 in MySQL, Innodb:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InnoDB
