There is definitely still a lot of opportunity to breach the boundary between development and production to understand distributed systems
Could this have been working around with https://www.jaegertracing.io/? That was one of the requirements at the organization I worked out.
We didn't go as far as to block traffic if the request didn't have a parent span (which included the service name calling it) but if it became a problem I'm sure we could have/would have done that (like 200+ microservices for fintec/banking across like 10-15 teams) and figured out pretty quickly in CAT/UAT/QA environment what wasn't passing a span.
But the invasion hasn't stopped. Most in the Ukraine are surely utterly exhausted from hearing decades of their infrastructure, cities, housing and culture being destroyed on a daily basis. Exhaused from the daily disruption, broken families and the mental and physical impact of having to actively protect themselves or fight against it. But they have to keep living it and fighting against it, daily, right outside their own doors. They don't have a choice.
I am sure most in Russia are equally exhausted by the daily impact on their lives of sanctions, fear of reprucussions for an opinion let alone any attempt at change, by being implicated in actions and conflict they don't agree with or by being effectively forced to personally and physically go to the front lines.
It is exhausting, it is uncomfortable, and that is OK. Globally we need to keep rallying against this fight against Ukraine. But maybe even more importantly, especially if you want to be selfish about it, we need to remember and be uncomfortable so that we're part of avoiding the next conflcit from starting.
For your personal mental wellbeing, if you're overwhelmed which I'm sure you are given the comment, my best piece of personal advice is to try and take a solid break from the news for a while. At a minimum try to avoid the hourly and daily scrolling on social media that exposes you to so much negativity and minimise the time on that to a smaller part of each day or week. It's really hard to do that, but it's the best I've got.
I agree with some of your points, but not this. Personally I don't have any need to have a background level of discomfort in order to stop the next conflict. This one was started by a deluded megalomaniac who did not consult me (or my country for that matter) before he invaded a neighbor and placed us all at risk of WW3. I'm sure the next one will likewise start without my input and against my wishes.
Shup the fuck up
It is not for the lack of solutions in hindsight, just the constant feature creep and microservice development blind sighted everyone to large organization problems.