There is more than that. You will not be able to view the event tables, and may not be able to run queries on a schedule.

This is not correct. You can get results from event-based tables, but the event producers are disabled by default. If you want to test events with osqueryi, you need to use

osqueryi --disable_events=false

. Note that if both osqueryi and osqueryd are running with events turned on you may find weird behaviors.

Thanks, I stand corrected.