Yes. Changing privacy and security-implication behavior around without good cause for edge-case "usability" is silly. What happens, if say, a Syrian is killed

Yes. Changing privacy and security-implication behavior around without good cause for edge-case "usability" is silly. What happens, if say, a Syrian is killed by their government because they were able to use their gossiping device to locate them? All that iOS 11 privacy work becomes moot if there's a SIGINT fail.