True, logs do needs to be stored somewhere. What l meant was: if the info is so important for the business, that detail should be stored in a system that provides a longer durability than just logging it.
Seems we are referring to two different things. What you mention references DB journal logs, and my comment was about application logs (like debug, info, error message etc.)
Though I agree, I think the parents point is that you don’t necessarily know if it’s important so you have to have some general record keeping with respect to “activity”