I agree with the sentiment but logging is incredibly simple to implement and is almost completely vendor agnostic (it's up to the log aggregator to make sense of the log file, not the software to output data in a specific format).

In addition, there's so much software that logs out of the box with limited support for metrics and traces it's not practical to ignore it.

In general though, I agree it's good to avoid if practical. Tracing is much more helpful in most cases especially when helpful context data is attached to traces.