If you choose wisely, things should suck less overall as you move forward. That's kind of the overall goal, otherwise we'd all still be toggling raw machine code into machines using switches.
This is it right here. My foil is the Elasticsearch replacement because PG has inverted indices. The ergonomics and tunability of these in PG are terrible compared to ES. Yes, it will search, but I wouldn’t want to be involved in constructing or maintaining that search.
There's poles.
1. Is folks constantly adopting the new tech, whatever the motivation, and 2. I learned a thing and shall never learn anything else, ever.
Of course nobody exists actually on either pole, but the closer you are to either, the less pragmatic you are likely to be.