IT policy flick of the switch disables that, such as at my organization. That was instead intended to snag single, non-corporate, user accounts (still horrible, but I mean to convey that MS at no point in all that expected a company's IT department to actually leave that training feature enabled in policy).

This was debunked within hours, as commented on that thread last week.

The administrative segments that decide to sell their firstborn to Microsoft all have their heads in the clouds. They'll pay Microsoft to steal their data and resell it and they'll defend their decisions making beyond their own demise.

As such Microsoft is doing the right choice in outright stealing data for whatever purpose. It will have no real consequences.

I think the case could be made that “spreading your data” is exactly what you don’t want to do, you’re increasing your attack surface.

Because that would be the biggest story in the world.

It is immaterial what they do and what you know. Important is what CIOs of the enterprise believe.