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 This package connects [Apache Spark™][sp-home] to [OpenTelemetry][ot-home].
 
-This creates a layer of indirection to allow reporting metrics from any Spark or PySpark job to [OpenTelemetry Collector][ot-col], or directly to any [supported backend][ot-export].
+This allows reporting tracing and metrics from any Spark or PySpark job to [OpenTelemetry Collector][ot-col], or directly to any [supported backend][ot-export].
 
 ## Status
 
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 ## Design Choices
 
+### Why not simply use Spark's built-in DropWizard support?
+
+Because that's something that already exists, and this is something I wanted to build. If the DropWizard metrics in Spark meet your needs, you should consider using those.
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 ### Crash on initialization failure
 
 If the OpenTelemetry SDK cannot be obtained during startup, we allow the listener –and enclosing spark job– to crash.