An argument that OpenTelemetry is somehow 'too big' is an example of motivated reasoning. I can understand that A Guy Who Makes Money If You Use Sentry dislikes that people are using OTel libraries to solve similar problems.

Context propagation and distributed tracing are cool OTel features! But they are not the only thing OTel should be doing. OpenTelemetry instrumentation libraries can do a lot on their own, a friend of mine made massive savings in compute efficiency with the NodeJS OTel library: https://www.checklyhq.com/blog/coralogix-and-opentelemetry-o...