Its not just CouchDB, I did a lot of searching a little while back and I generally just don't like how tightly they've wrapped up almost all of the results. If you go by searching alone its overwhelmingly MongoDB positive to such an extent that its hard to believe its organic.
It's definitely impressive marketing but when I'm deciding on which tool to use that arguably works against them as opposed to for them.
So you are choosing software on it's technical merit and not just on popularity and hype!? What if there are no breaking changes every third month, what are you gonna do? Solve actual problems!? :P
Interesting. So they are catching a ride in the hype train by adopting the hyped technology... So this is why the tech stack is picked by and marketed to the business/directors rather then engineering.
It's definitely impressive marketing but when I'm deciding on which tool to use that arguably works against them as opposed to for them.