It's very stupid to me, just as a policy, and I would love if someone could explain it to me. I would understand completely if they didn't let users view traffi

It's very stupid to me, just as a policy, and I would love if someone could explain it to me. I would understand completely if they didn't let users view traffic data or have their routing done based on traffic data if they don't share their location; don't put in your data, you don't get to take advantage of the rest of the dataset. But tying two unrelated features together like this is confusing, aggressive, and downright illogical as far as I can tell. I think they would get back a good amount of goodwill if they did so, and would keep a large portion of the userbase on board without looking like (and being) assholes. Plenty of people use read receipts in WhatsApp, for example, in order to see others' read receipts.