MySQL was bought by Oracle, and it's common knowledge that dealing with Oracle is looking for troubles.
And yet, I just tried PlanetScale[0] which uses MySQL under the hood and I'm mind blown. They completely nailed the user/developer experience! (I'm absolutely not affiliated with them by any way)
So, it's very tempting to go with them for a new project and thus go the MySQL way, but I still have nightmares of using MySQL almost a decade ago.
So I would love to hear the arguments of the community on why I should favor one database over the other.
[0] https://planetscale.com