I think the best thing about the bitemporality is that it's for 'free'. Even if eventually you don't use it, all the data and indexes will already be there. While if you use sql, or for example neo4j, you need to somehow add the data later + a lot of complex logic.

Hello all! In the new 1.7.1-alpha release I added the ability to look at some metrics. Here's a blog I wrote about it to give a brief view of what's new https://juxt.pro/blog/posts/crux-now-has-metrics.html