That would not be recalling correctly: SystemTap does that, and so does eBPF (via uprobes and kprobes).

A large problem with SystemTap is that it was developed in the open, and in the early days people were scared off with its kernel panics. SystemTap built a negative brand: first impressions matter. DTrace, however, was largely built before its public release, and with the help from many other engineers and test teams. People's first impressions with DTrace was something that was already awesome. Of course, there are other problems with SystemTap: its process of compiling code and loading kernel modules was always risker than an interpreter.

As for how eBPF compares: I summarized it last year http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2016-10-27/dtrace-for-linux...