Your post has made it quite apparent that you have no experience managing these devices in a real world scenario. >automatically installed on unaware customers

Your post has made it quite apparent that you have no experience managing these devices in a real world scenario. >automatically installed on unaware customers equipment. No. >they claim this is to "gather crashes and other critical events strictly for the purpose of improving our products", but to be honest; how often does that happen in routers? Also apparent you have not used their IPv6 stack nor their fq_codel implementation. >Having it forced with no way to opt-out is also an indication of hostility. They claim they will release a firmware update without telemetry, but no dates have been set. This move certainly made me scratch my head a little. Especially when Ubiquiti should know their customer base would be less than thrilled.