What I like about event driven is that you don't even need to know if anyone is listening to or cares about your event.

And as a consumer, many independent tasks can be triggered by the same event.

I'm working on a system right now and because of events, it's very easy for me to write a handler for when a certain type of record is created in the database. My feature depends on knowing that new record was made so we can send some emails and do other things.

The people that wrote the code that creates the record, didn't have to do anything to support the feature.

But I agree that it's not the right solution for every problem. But there are certain problems it solves really well.