A shame.. Is this a case of what's better for the dev team outweighing what makes it fun to use as a user? Sorry if that seems harsh, but (personally) this plus the simplicity of setting up map/reduce functions and seeing the results directly in futon are what made CouchDB stand out...
Yeah I agree. I think they are chasing VC money. Riak is successful so they want to follow suit. But the problem is they are trying to do what Riak does and Riak does what it does best. A second project with largely the same feature is going to have a very hard time displacing a stable product.
