Why? Why must someone check out a new more complicated way to do something that was already simple by default before logs were turned into db rows?

Bro no. Logrotate shit was gross and gnarly. Every service has its own way of doing with logs. None of it worked the same. It never was simple it always had been crap.

I have my complaints but not replying on each service to do something special conpatible with each other log rotation system was not a complaint. Having this managed reasonably has been great.