OTel has a nice property of working, which sometimes can't be said about vendor stuff. I think the actual APIs kinda smell at the language level, and when Hone

OTel has a nice property of working, which sometimes can't be said about vendor stuff. I think the actual APIs kinda smell at the language level, and when Honeycomb decided to lean into otel and deprecate its Python libs I was super sad, cuz HC's libs were _way_ more usable IMO. Docs are also... painful. Real painful. I wish that I could get a Python lib which is like "here this is Otel but the config phase isn't weird, and the API just looks a bit better". One of these days. The biggest trouble I have with Otel recently is getting fixes patched upstream in contrib. Using contribs is super dangeerous, and I would basically recommend people write their own instrumentation and treat the contrib packages as just examples of how to do it