That newfangled Journal thing

if you want to ignore the hashes part of things, we can talk about the structured log part of things. logs are only as structured as the programmer creating them makes them, if you have a super-detailed log structure available and the programmer creates a field "details" type "string" and puts everything into that field it is going to be just as unstructured as syslog traditionally has been.

He ignores or is ignorant of recent standards in syslog (some of which go back quite a few years)

he has a few new ideas buried in the proposal, but they are so overshadowed by misstatements and 'solutions' to problems that already have documented, standardized solutions (that are not compatible with the proposed solution other than running logging services in parallel) that it undermines the entire proposal