Microsoft microsofting. By which I mean making confusing UX choices that no user would want, with bad presets, and that get misinterpreted in the comment-o-sphere as dark patterns infringing on our freedoms.

They're transforming the control of telemetry to a different option. The problem is that the new option doesn't default to being based on your old telemetry opt-out value, it just defaults to "on" as if you just downloaded VSC. And this leads people to reading all kinds of evil intent into it.

But it's probably not. We've all worked on big complicated products at big, slow companies, right? This is just bad design.