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Over the last year of using std.log in practice, it has become clear to me that having the current 8 distinct log levels does more harm than good. It is too subjective which level a given message should have which makes filtering based on log level weaker as not all messages will have been assigned the log level one might expect. Instead, more granular filtering should be achieved by leveraging the logging scope feature. Filtering based on a combination of scope and log level should be sufficiently powerful for all use-cases. Note that the self hosted compiler has already limited itself to 4 distinct log levels for many months and implemented granular filtering based on both log scope and level. This has worked very well in practice while working on the self hosted compiler.