potiuk commented on PR #39908:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/39908#issuecomment-2138754554

   Yes. But making things consistent with docs is one thing, while breaking 
existing deployments that baase on "actual" behaviour is another. In this case 
changing the metrics is a problem and if we want to make documentattion and 
implementation consistent, we should only update the documentation (even if it 
means that some metrics will have different and inconsistent behaviour).
   
   In this case - preserving current behaviour trumps consistency.
   
   I think we **could** have a new parameter that will say "consistent" metrics 
(disabled by default) where this might get fixed and we should swap the default 
value with Airflow 3 (to be consistent by default). Simply metrics is one of 
those things that is undervalued by most people who develop Airlfow but have 
the potential of wreakiing huge havoc if we change their behaviour, it's 
heavily public API when you think of breaking effects it might have and 
probability it will cause problems if you change metric values effectively by 3 
orders of magnitude.


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