We moved from Influxdb to Prometheus for this reason. Influxdb is far more powerful, but ain't nobody got time to fix all the graphs in Grafana or learn the very mathematical like QL.
If we had dedicated personell to manage our monitoring we might have stuck with it.
I'm curious; why cancel a product you want made by someone who you describe as competent due to a personality conflict? Some moral boundary or principle matter? I wouldn't think a clash of personalities should be a factor in such a transaction.
The number of calories are largely irrelevant. The hormones direct what is done with those calories. Is it used or stored. The body has multiple ways of burning more or less energy.
Stating that this isn't a problem if thermodynamics isn't saying thermodynamics isn't real. It is just saying that it doesn't apply in this problem, i.e. it is an irrelevant factor.
It is similar to saying speed isn't the reason you are late to work today. There was an accident and the freeway was locked up. Speed is still real. It just doesn't explain anything.
If we had dedicated personell to manage our monitoring we might have stuck with it.