[hobofan]

This seems to be more of a branding problem than anything.

OP (rightfully) complains that there is a mismatch between what they (can) advertise ("We support OTEL") and what they are actually providing to the user. I have the same pain point from the consumer side, where I have to trial multiple tools and service to figure out which of them actually supports the OTEL feature set I care about.

I feel like this could be solved by introducing better branding that has a clearly defined scope of features inside the project (like e.g. "OTEL Tracing") which can serve as a direct signifier to customers about what feature set can be expected.

[zeeg]

Yes! Its a bit deeper than that but its fundamentally a packaging issue.