Yes, I have (and currently do) use slf4j. It’s not a panacea. Maybe you also write software that services millions of MAUs with engineering teams spread across the world - and seen immensely different results. That’d be a breath of fresh air.

However, as a stickler for quality, I find myself on the wrong end of this discussion in practice. I insist, logging is truly the LCD of software development. Introducing unergonomic data structures generated from protobufs strikes me as something that the long tail would ignore, and instead simply reach for something simpler to instead log `here`, `here1`, etc.