1. That design decision makes sense. Thanks for clarifying! 2. Makes sense and great to hear! I will try it out. But does that mean this paragraph from the documentation is not accurate?

If a Typesense cluster loses more than

(N-1/2)

nodes at the same time, the cluster becomes unstable because it loses quorum and the remaining node(s) cannot safely build consensus on which node is the leader. To avoid a potential split brain issue, Typesense then stops accepting writes and reads until some manual verification and intervention is done.

This makes me think manual intervention is required in the case of quorum loss, but what you said about it being automatic fits with what I would expect.