> Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.

For the record, I'm not the one who downvoted the parent for an honest question.

There are threads where it would be relevant, in this case they're just using this thread as a sounding board because the title contains the word Microsoft. Plus we have all read near identical posts and the corresponding discussion hundreds of times already, because they appear in every thread that brings up Microsoft.

It is kind of like Godwin's law, except instead of Hitler it is telemetry and Microsoft. If there is new information or new things to discuss, absolutely let's talk about it, but repeating the same complaint gets old after the nth time.