> New Relic did this for the Rails revolution, Datadog did it for the rise of AWS, and Honeycomb led the way for OpenTelemetry.

I find this reading of history of OTel highly biased. OpenTelemetry was born as the Merge of OpenCensus (initiated by Google) and OpenTracing (initiated by LightStep):

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/05/opentelemetry-merg...

> The seed governance committee is composed of representatives from Google, Lightstep, Microsoft, and Uber, and more organizations are getting involved every day.

Honeycomb has for sure had valuable code & community contributions and championed the technology adoption, but they are very far from "leading the way".