Agreed. But it's also because Elastic and ElasticSearch aren't the same thing. You probably want https://www.elastic.co/blog/whats-new-elasticsearch-7-9-0
"Data Streams sounds cool! It could help alleviate some of the management overhead that I was accomplishing with ingest pipelines."
clicks into the docs
`X-Pack only`
I get that it's complementary to their ILM functionality, which, too, is an X-Pack feature, but still, clarity would be helpful.
e.g. "Data Streams" is covered under the Basic license so you can use it for free (I think? As far as I can tell at least). You can find the feature on their subscriptions page: https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions
I find the whole situation with X-Pack, Subscriptions and OSS vs Basic super confusing and the subscription page seems very bad at explaining it all.