It is a reasonable assumption. They just totally flubbed the original incident. Someone just dropped a PR saying they're merging in telemetry without any issue

It is a reasonable assumption. They just totally flubbed the original incident. Someone just dropped a PR saying they're merging in telemetry without any issue discussion, or forum post, or anything, and all the initial review discussion on it was able how they should vendor their dependencies - no discussion about telemetry.