It's not just DDL that isn't transactional, there's a whole bunch of other things that aren't. And they break the transactionality silently. It's like an obstical course where bumping into something might be fatal.
What specific non-DDL things are you referring to here?
Aside from DDL, the only other major ones are manipulating users/grants, manipulating replication, a small number of other administrative commands, and LOCK TABLES.
That hardly seems equivalent. Why do you need to e.g. reconfigure replication inside of a transaction in the first place?
The lack of transactional DDL is a totally valid complaint, but the non-DDL stuff is just a total head-scratcher to me. Aside from DDL, implicit commits have literally never impacted me in my 21 years of using MySQL.
