Every field you add doesn't give you one more thing to query.
It gives you new combinations with every field that already exists.
The question space grows combinatorially — not linearly.
drag to explore30 fields
naive value
just count fields
30
pairwise combos
any 2 fields together
435
all combinations
any subset — 2ⁿ
1.1B
question space (log scale) — fields 1–50
linear (naïve)
pairwise combos
all combinations (2ⁿ)
A wide event with 250 fields contains
2²⁵⁰ possible questions — more than the atoms in the observable universe.
You don't need all of them. You need the
three fields that intersect exactly at the bug you've never seen before.
The point is: they're all there, stored together, ready.
You didn't have to predict which ones you'd need.