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Most people would. The author makes a comparison in this interview: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/login_fal...

Note also that this work emerged within Google a decade before eBPF was really useful.

Wasn't there similar useful stuff from systemtap before eBPF? That's been around for quite a while.

True again, but SystemTap overhead is 20-100x higher.

Systemtap, for whatever reason, remained largely RedHat solution. It didn't really have much traction outside that diaspora.

The other alternative is LTTng, released in 2005 (requires loading a kernel module):

Argument is that KUTrace is faster, which honestly I'm not sure of.