> I will say the (not so recent) API change to "components" and "archetypes" hasn't clicked for me yet. Obviously I could sit down and figure it out.
Are you referring to the move from the `rr.log_image("path/to/my_image", ...)` style API to the `rr.log("path/to/my_image", rr.Image(...))` style API that came in 0.9 (roughly a year ago)? Our intention was that if you stick to the higher level Archetype APIs, the two should be equivalent in terms of "magically handle any data". The component level APIs are intended to give more control when you need it (for instance to improve performance), but aren't required.
> But it would be a lot nicer if the API could just ingest whatever damn types I throw at it, rather than raising an error 20-minutes in because I wasn't polite enough.
Our intension is for this to never happen either, but obviously "any data" is a very broad set of things so there may be some mistakes on our side. If you're not running the SDK in strict mode, any thrown exception from the Python SDK should be seen as a bug. Really sorry to hear that happened, I agree that sucks. Would love any details you can share on when any aspect of Rerun is annoying (either here, on discord, or github)!