I have seen this first hand. It is also very common to have an “original sin” in the form of a schema design. In the short term maybe it’s easier to just have a

I have seen this first hand. It is also very common to have an “original sin” in the form of a schema design. In the short term maybe it’s easier to just have a single table for “events” and add new fields to that to decorate specific event types... until you have thousands of event types, extremely sparse records, name collision, columns named the same things but with different casing or underscores, and realize you need to split it out