Managing storage and compute together is one of the biggest issues with ElasticSearch it makes managing a cluster a fairly complex task, I think it's natural to

Managing storage and compute together is one of the biggest issues with ElasticSearch it makes managing a cluster a fairly complex task, I think it's natural to see them move in this direction. I imagine that, especially after the OpenSearch debacle, they're keen to make sure they don't lose even more marketshare so they're paying particular attention to the way the wind blows and wanted to do this PoC so they can at least compete with people already in the stateless space like Quickwit.