My concern with this move isn't that "telemetry" is a boogie-man word but that it is a slippery slope that we have seen far too many companies slide down on.

The progression seems to be: No telemetry -> Opt-in telemetry -> Opt-out telemetry -> Always on telemetry -> Yeah we sell whatever data you give to us to the highest bidder, what are you going to do about it?

Speaking as someone who has this deployed at work and would be loathe to go through the trouble of having to swap this out, we need to send them a strong enough message at this stage so that they stop experimenting with this further.