I don't mean it as a counter argument, or I don't think the way you mean it, at least.
You may not use it at your smaller scale. But there are millions of machines out there that do use it, and the alternative for the same functionality is much worse.
I bet you never use SCTP sockets either. eBPF is used much more than SCTP.
And its users "fund" its development, so it's not a burden to those who don't use it.
But are you sure your systems don't use it? Run "bpftool prog" to see. Whatever you see there someone thought was better than the alternative.
You may not use it at your smaller scale. But there are millions of machines out there that do use it, and the alternative for the same functionality is much worse.
I bet you never use SCTP sockets either. eBPF is used much more than SCTP.
And its users "fund" its development, so it's not a burden to those who don't use it.
But are you sure your systems don't use it? Run "bpftool prog" to see. Whatever you see there someone thought was better than the alternative.