On by default analytics makes me not want to touch this, sorry.
Lastly, everything is open source. So, you are free to read the code and modify and use your modified version if that's what you prefer. xref: https://github.com/kubedb/operator/blob/0.9.0/pkg/cmds/root....
In this case there’s a flag advertized to turn it off, hopefully someone will be reading the docs before it’s deployed in production?
Do you think AWS and GCP don’t collect metrics?
Happy to hear the other side, my knee-jerk reaction is also usually “you don’t need this data”, but when thinking as an owner, i would find this data invaluable to improve the product, getting funding (please donate, there are X millions of users) etc.