[nijave]

Mostly agree although I think ease of instrumentation is getting pretty good. At least in the Python ecosystem, you set some env vars and run opentelemtry-bootstrap and it spits out a list of packages to add. Then you run your code with the otel cli wrapper and it just works.

Datadog is equally as easy.

That alone gets you pretty good canned dashboards on vendors that have built in APM views.

The rest definitely rings true and I suspect some of it has come with the ease of software development. You need to know less about computer fundamentals and debugging with the proliferation of high level frameworks, codegen, and AI.

I also have noticed a trend that brings observability closer to development with IDE integration which I think is a good direction. Having the info "silo'd" in an opaque mega data store isn't useful.