> Guess I am unqualified to say that folks who say metrics, logs, and traces are the definition of telemetry is mistaken.

I think you're confused. A set of specialized telemetry types is telemetry, and the definition of telemetry is not limited to a subset of soecialied telemetry types. You know, a cat is an animal but the definition of what's an animal is not "a cat".

I recommend you read over the topic. As you seem to complain about anything related to OpenTelemetry, perhaps reading the same answer from other vendors of telemetry systems might spark an epiphany.

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/learn/what-is-telemetry.ht...