The fact it's opt-in reduces the validity of their goals honestly, particularly related to assessing the scale of things like usage and stability issues. Linux users seem far less likely to opt-in to telemetry than Windows users, and even between Linux distros I'd expect to see significant differences that will make it hard to draw any real conclusions.

The acquisition by the newly founded Muse Group, followed closely by this PR, with very little discussion or community work leading up to it feels a little corrupt for an open-source project. Even now - when there's so much backlash - the PR hasn't been rejected or changed in any way.

Here's hoping for a decent fork to pop up if this goes through, as it's indicative of the kind of mingling we can expect from the new ownership going forward.