Developers use whatever your default storage engine is on mySQL/MariaDB - in other words, it's not our choice...it's yours. We just create the tables, your server dictates the storage engine.
Example - my local installation of WAMP has been around pre-mySQL 5.5 (which is when the default storage engine became InnoDB, prior to that it was MyISAM) - I have never got around to changing the setting as I've upgraded., and then converted to MariaDB. As such, my default storage engine is still MyISAM, and any new databases will be MyISAM, and any new tables created will be MyISAM too.
How to find out? Run mysql in a command line, execute SHOW ENGINES; and look for DEFAULT in the Support column.
If you want to then crack on.
Maybe/maybe not - from my own perspective (my apps/plugins) nope, doubt it.