> I’m going to blame Open Telemetry. Yes, it’s powering the modern observability stack and yet I blame it for the mass confusion

Of course. It’s the classic Internet dev thing of “make a blog post about how using tool X well was a boon to what you were trying to do” and a mass of people walk away with “tool X magically solves things in its default configuration without me learning anything”.

The nice bit is this post will then lead to a bunch of companies’ log storage prices spiking and then a post about how you don’t need wide events trending.