Depends on how much you value not being vendor locked in. I'll spend a week of dev time in order to save a month or two in migration pain later down the line when my vendor jacks up cost. See Datadog as an example.
You can have your cake and eat it too with OpenTelemetry (see my original post). I don't see how that has to do with the cost of tracing being a factor in inhibiting its adoption though? I agree that vendor neutral instrumentation is worth it.
> ...the cost of tracing with a SaaS vendor is also very small. Far smaller than the developer time needed to set up something else.
I'm mainly responding to this point regarding developer time outweighing the cost of just going with SaaS vendor that provides that capability. I don't think we disagree with each other though
