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> otherwise you wouldn't be capitalizing on the advantages of JSON

Shouldn't this be "otherwise you wouldn't be capitalizing on the advantages of a schemaless, document-oriented database"?

The fact that it's JSON (vs. some other format) seems immaterial

As an aside, I hate the term 'schemaless' because there is always a schema.

Yep. Schema-on-read (E.g. MongoDB) or schema-on-write (E.g. Oracle)

Quibble: “schemaless” isn’t accurate, MongoDB supports schema (JSON Schema, in fact). We often say “dynamic schema”.

But your main point is good—- JSON isn’t the essence of it.

And yet it’s part of it, in that you could store XML and still be a document DB; MongoDB definitely chose JSON as the medium deliberately.