Yep, absolutely... and in the end benchmarks aren't going to sell a database anyways. Reliability and provable correctness and ease of integration are probably going to win in the end. It's a dubious marketing edge to lead with.

PostgreSQL itself is remarkably slow in many configurations and leaves a lot of performance on the table due to its architecture and assumptions. But it works and people trust it. So they use it.

Or if you're in enterprise, whichever company's sales rep some executive has locked you into while 10 drinks in at a fancy dinner.