Post author here. Yes, existing span formats also represent DAGs. But there are additional details in the spans, that trip up developers. Also, most developers

Post author here. Yes, existing span formats also represent DAGs. But there are additional details in the spans, that trip up developers. Also, most developers don't think about using spans to represent DAGs in their applications Regular Span - Annotations(nested structures) = SpanEvent. Yes, we made the API much more simpler. As a result you can consume the spans in the format you produce them.