I started on Oracle, then spent many years on MySQL, and am now using mostly Postgres. I vastly prefer Postgres over MySQL. Mind you, I haven't really worked with MySQL in a few years now, so it might have improved a lot for all I know. The one thing that initially drew me to Postgres over MySQL was DDL being transactional.

Yeah I know MySQL started out as the "poor man's" lightweight alternative to Postgres.

But it always worked well for me. Like I said I got used to its quirks. I'm just surprised reading from this article that postgres has quirks too :)