[coldtea]

>Just because it's been true in the past, it doesn't mean this trend will continue. Maybe it keeps being true for your run-of-the-mill MVP, but I don't see it being acceptable for a system in any industry w/ any chance of making serious money in the mid-term.

Again, you'd be surprised. Aside from advertising and consumer behavior analysis, there are not many industries that care or even have a need for such historical data.

The very idea that it must be necessarily valuable to store historical data about "all the things" (apart maybe from some aggregations you can create and store), seems more associated with the recent "big data" fad.

(I've seen 10-12 such trends rise and fall in the industry. In 10 years, I guarantee you it will have fallen off as a keyword, and only used as a technology where really appropriate).