That a very valid point. But the sad truth is that if the people in charge of deciding product direction are the people looking at telemetry instead of bug rep

That a very valid point. But the sad truth is that if the people in charge of deciding product direction are the people looking at telemetry instead of bug reports/patches from users then in the end the Linux user's interests will not be high up (or even visible) to the product direction decider. I've seen this happen before at some previous workplaces where the telemetry and analytics was the only factor controlling decisions - and this lead to the vocal (but not visible in telemetry) userbase getting the short end of the stick on many occasions.