Back in the day at a previous gig I tried and largely failed to convince anyone that sudden upswings in people sharing detailed instructions about screwing around in the guts of the product should be treated the same way sudden upswings in crash rates: a capital-I Incident that deserves near term attention and careful retrospective investigation.
What is this, if not a user expectation going so badly unmet that people are _happy_ to risk bricking their box to fix it?
I understand the counterargument, and (frankly, unfortunately) the counterargument is well-supported by the numbers. Approximately nobody does this or anything like it. Ignoring the hackernews crowd is a high-percentage decision, and I not-so-secretly believe that the real reason that a lot (not all but a lot) of that crowd's protracted animus towards telemetry has nothing to do with privacy and everything to do with the fact that telemetry produces evidence their opinions don't matter.
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