> Also it stills remains one of the simplest databases to setup and use making it still my goto for hacks/spikes.

It's not hard to make it easy to do a thing in the wrong way - and that's exactly what MongoDB does. It doesn't make you set up authentication or table schemas, so it looks 'really easy to set up'.

In reality, though, you're wasting hours to save 10 minutes. Because at a later point, you're going to have your database broken into (if it can even be called that, without authentication), or you end up corrupting your data because two of your applications disagree over what the current object schema is.

To know how easy something really is, you need to compare how hard it is to set something up correctly. And once you do that, MongoDB falls far behind.