Actually, it's a bit more nuanced than that, because merely by using the #1 analytics solution, even without shady practices on your part, you already put your visitors' data at risk. Other example: embeds. I used Vimeo rather than YouTube to embed videos, using their rather honest do-not-track option, but went the extra mile and disabled localStorage for them, to ensure no data whatsoever was left. So almost all business owners need to actively want to protect their users' privacy, but this is a consequence of a few big players' explicit choices. See above.
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Which parts of it are user-hostile? The consenting part, or the opt-out part?
We can criticize the solution, sure. We can also criticize the end result. But the intention was a good one and it was worth doing imo because at some point something has to be done.