Investigate the use cases, technical implications, and pros/cons of using kafka-bridge versus kafka-mq for IQE testing in stage and ephemeral environments.  The goal is to capture these details to guide a conversation for establishing clear guidelines for when to use each approach and ensure thorough test coverage.

• kafka-mq is "easier" to use because iqe-core obfuscates a lot of the boilerplate. What are the details of the boiler plate that kafka-mq provides?

• What's the impact of one versus the other (performance, timings, etc.)?

• What are the "under the hood" differences between Kafka Bridge and direct Kafka MQ interaction? (e.g., how do they handle consumer groups, partitions, message serialization/deserialization, error handling?)