People go out there way to make events the source of truth in non-kafka systems. With a lot of effort involved. It isn't just people being lazy with Kafka. Even

People go out there way to make events the source of truth in non-kafka systems. With a lot of effort involved. It isn't just people being lazy with Kafka. Event sourcing existed before with traditional databases. I came across it in the .net world with cqrs + event sourcing combo long before Kafka became popular. People put a lot effort in to move away traditional current state storage. Often used in industries that have a lot of regulation.