Considering GH is MS-owned, i'm even more reluctant to use it.

Anything that leaves your computer and enters hardware owned by MS should make you think twice about using a certain service/product.

Same goes for almost every other company out there.Also FOMO is not an argument, there are plenty of alternatives for almost everything out there.If it's comfort people are worried about then they should stick to iPads and ditch software-dev, because trends like these are why the quality of software has been declining drastically in the last decade.

These streamlined processes of using telemetry for the "product's good" are just a way to compensate that.