I mean yeah, I too would probably prefer to read a few well-reasoned arguments over email than to wade through hundreds of hateful, vitriolic, accusatory comments from randos in a GitHub thread. Being an open-source maintainer is hard.
Or, you know, do the right thing from the start considering that forced telemetry you have to opt-out of is universally reviled and every project that includes it suffers from literally the same issues.
