Slapping on OpenTelemetry actually will solve your problem.

Point #1 isn't true, auto instrumentation exists and is really good. When I integrate OTel I add my own auto instrumentors wherever possible to automatically add lots of context. Which gets into point #2.

Point #2 also isn't true. It can add business context in a hierarchal manner and ship wide events. You shouldn't have to tell every span all the information again. Just where it appears naturally the first time.

Point #3 also also isn't true because OTel libs make it really annoying to just write a log message and very strongly pushes you into a hierarchy of nested context managers.

Like the author's ideal setup is basically using OTel with Honeycomb. You get the querying and everything. And unlike rawdogging wide events all your traces are connected, can span multiple services and do timing for you.