If we can’t use the event module for this…what exactly is the purpose of the event module? If we think the implementation of the event module is buggy, then we should fix the implementation, right? It would be nice for us to deal with hibernate interceptor messiness once, and do it properly, in the event module, and then for us to rely on that for a way to publish / subscribe to changes.
Presumably, there could be an Event listener that we support which would simply hit the REST endpoint, get the JSON, and log this - maybe to an external document database, along with the other information from the event (event type, data type, uuid, etc). Then, implementations that want a full audit log and have the terabytes to spare could simply enable this. This would seem like it would be pretty low-effort to add in.