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Austin S. Hemmelgarn

Enterprise apps also often have enough clout behind them to be able to get away with bullying their users into doing things in a certain way so that the developers don’t need to worry about certain edge cases.

Sometimes this is a reasonable thing (for example, ZFS insisting on ECC RAM if you want any bug reports to be taken seriously), but sometimes it results in objectively stupid behavior (for example, the database software my previous job used for inventory tracking not being able to provide ACID guarantees unless the network it was running over was functionally perfect).