>Obviously, this was mismanaged on many fronts [1], however the idea of tracking product usage in order to improve the product is generally a good thing, not a

>Obviously, this was mismanaged on many fronts [1], however the idea of tracking product usage in order to improve the product is generally a good thing, not a bad thing. Disagree. The kind of client-side hyper granular tracking being discussed here is not a good thing. It encourages micro optimization for metrics over maintaining a good big-picture architecture. I've seen no evidence whatsoever that software is any better now than it was in the days when applications were off-line only.