> now you can also replay queues

yeahnah, that leads to people treating queues like databases (I'm looking at you new york times, you know what you did wrong)

its either a queue, or a pubsub, either way its ephemeral. Once its gone, it should stay gone. thats what database, object stores or filesystems are for.

Kafka is a beast, has lots of bells and whistles and grinds to a halt when you look at it funny. Yes, it can scale, but also it can just sulk.

rabbit has it's own set of problems, and frankly it's probably not choose either anymore.