It has, but that became an issue if you have a huge table with a bunch of enums since that will increase the size of the table a lot. At the same time I don’t want to use integers since it decreases readability when querying the DB directly.
AFAIK, that annoying part was more prevalent before Postgres 9 since it could only add new values to the end of the enum. after that you can add in any position.
Also, needing a migration to add/remove values can be seen as something annoying, but it can also be seen as a advantage since it makes sure that no one can add wrong data to it.
