Perhaps you are right. Though it seems easier to reason about a system with a hundred timers running at a set cadence than a hundred exponential back-offs. Maybe I just have more experience with the former.

I guess you could always cap off the exponential interval increases at some max interval, making it basically a repeating timer.

Though there's still the question of why would you need this for telemetry. It doesn't feel like this type of "marketing" telemetry needs to be quite real time.