If you have to do something cannabis is probably the better option especially if you eat it instead of smoking it. I stopped drinking 5 years ago and my blood pressure dropped from like ~135/90 down to ~115/75 most readings. Now coffee is my only vice.
I've run into a similar experience with bots signing up for our waitlist although we ended up with some active users via those sign ups. Around 4% of the waitlisted users signed up for an account (free product). I think the insight about focusing on the red flags is pretty accurate. Not enough to just have waitlist signups and assume it will convert.
We went back and forth on this for an app my team was building and ended up going with Pinecone for a few reasons. One is that vector data is derived data, I don't want to manage it with the same care that I do my operational data. Second, for us we were using a RAG pattern to perform similarity searches on vectorized content and stuffing it into a prompt that we sent to the LLM. The developer experience of doing this with Pinecone was drop dead simple; tailored specifically for doing kANN searches. Our production database is Mongo which had very unproven vector capabilities and which did not perform well in our tests at the time. The obvious downside here is that now we have another database to manage and we take on the additional complexity in our architecture along with additional costs. Initially my thinking was in line with the SingleStore CEO, but the more I have thought about it, the more comfortable I am with the idea that vector data is specialized and has different management requirements and is better suited to live in a specialized data store. Just my personal opinion...
OpenTelemetry is a great concept, but in my experience not quite there yet. Docs especially fall into the common trap of handling the happy path hello world quickstarts, then become increasingly useless as you want to get beyond that to real life use cases. Given the inherent tradeoff of complexity that comes from trying to unify different approaches around one standard, sometimes it seems like things that should be simple are more difficult than they should be. I'm sure it will keep improving.