You will obviously have a change management system which describes all the changes you have made to your putative standard distro configs. You will also be monitoring those changes.
This tool logs all the changes it makes via the standard logging system, which can be easily captured, shipped and aggregated and then queried and reported on.
This is not a tool from Clown Cars R US, it's from a reasonably reputable source - Oracle (lol etc). Even better, you can read the code and learn or critique.
Not being funny but I'd rather this sort of thing by far than any amount of wooo handwavy wankery. Would you prefer openly described and documented or "take our word for it"?
Which is now a list you will have to check for every issue. I don't think they are complaining they don't trust the writers of the code, just that it adds confounding variables to your system
This is an expert system/advice run by real people (at a reasonably well respected firm) not an AI wankery thingie. It is literally expert advice and it is being given away and in code form which you can read.
What on earth is wrong with that?
The world is now very highly interconnected. When I was a child, I would have rubbish conversations over the blower to an aunt in Australia - that latency was well over one second - satellite links. Nowadays we have direct fibre connections.
So, does you does ?