My primary disagreement with that thesis would be the utility of logging things that clearly represent transactions, especially to the outside world. eg, HTTP

My primary disagreement with that thesis would be the utility of logging things that clearly represent transactions, especially to the outside world. eg, HTTP access logging is good and useful (vs non-structured debug timings on every fragment rendering) eg, A mail server reporting delivery of a particular message into a mailbox. I think your "events with identity" description is a nice succinct version of this same idea.