[pdimitar]

> After all, his main point is that it’s complex and overengineered, which is the key takeaway for curious bystanders like me, whether every detail is technically correct or not.

This is a gross over-simplification that will leave you with a very skewed view of reality. As a programmer I only ever had to add a library, configure the OTLP endpoint details (host, port, URI, sometimes query parameters as well) and it was done.

It might be "complex and overengineered" if you want to contribute to the OTel libraries but as a programmer-user you are seeing practically none of it. And I would also challenge the "complex and overengineered" part but for now I am not informed enough to do it.