[HeyImAlex]

I think all metrics can be reconstructed as “wide events” since they’re just a bunch of arbitrary data? Counts, gauges, and histograms at least seem pretty straight forward to me.

It seems like the main motivation for metrics is that sending + storing + querying wide events for everything is cost prohibitive and/or performance intensive. If you can afford it and it works well, wide events is definitely more flexible. A metric is kinda just a pre-aggregation on the event stream.