Github user ottobackwards commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2737
That makes sense, just thinking it through, and obviously I don't
understand everything as well ;)
I guess I never thought of provenance as including perf and stats stuff, so
it seems like putting it there is just doing it because that is the thing that
is present to use, co-opting it so to speak.---
