Pinot supports unnesting a complex type as documented here: https://docs.pinot.apache.org/basics/data-import/complex-type#handle-the-complex-type-with-ingestion-configurations

As part of this operation, nested fields appear as flat columns in Pinot with this naming convention: '.'.

It might be useful to rename such "unnested" fields to a user chosen config. For instance, user may choose to only retain '' in the above example. There may be other ways to specify this renaming policy.