It sounds like you're arguing to use an even more sophisticated logging system than the status quota of blindly writing bytes to disk.
It’s my opinion (as an infrastructure type) that centralised binary logging is an absolute necessity above 20 instances.
But that leaves out every person with a laptop, or those people with a very low volume of little instances.
Structured logging is difficult, that’s why logstash is so flexible about input and conversions. And I think that was the impetus for systemd’s journals; to log structurally.
However. The parent is wrong if he thinks decisions should be made under low disk conditions. Having a rotate rule to keep your sliding window of logs to a certain size is fine. But your servers (and laptops, and desktops) should not be taking arbitrary decisions based on this kind of condition.
