And they were actually like that pre-LLM, in 2019, when I was implementing stuff for a car company on azure. They spent _hundreds of thousands_ on cosmosDB, for less performance than a raspberry pi running Postgres.
Every marketing page and just about every second documentation page goes on and on about how fantastic CosmosDB performance and scalability is. Meanwhile, the best performance I have ever managed to squeeze out of it could be generously classified as "glacial".
Whenever I read its docs I feel like I'm being gaslit.
