Yes, go observe a broad array of sites - for someone who says theyre a (non)practicing attorney, you know in environments where logs and audit are considered evidence, to such a degree that they must be reliably transported and immunutable, someone doesn't just turn on UDP syslog to a box and let it sit there. Architecture and implementation happen, where it matters. So what if anyone uses otel or syslog, people can configure em both to be lossy or lossless, I struggle to understand the "gotchas" you point to.
Then I don't know what to tell you. *shrug* I feel like you're arguing just for argument's sake, and I'm not really interested in having a conversation with someone who's not demonstrating open-mindedness or a willingness to learn from others' experiences in the field.