We disagree about the goals non-commercial open-source projects should have. I am focusing on serving the (established) users, you on things that might help the

We disagree about the goals non-commercial open-source projects should have. I am focusing on serving the (established) users, you on things that might help the developers. I does not matter to me how much telemetry might help development at all. Even if all those things you listed were substantially helping improve development, nope I don't care. Software should serve the user and only the user. As a user I don't have any benefit from the use of telemetry. Sure maybe it might help fix issues in futures version for me but again it does not benefit me as a user of the current version of the software. I am well aware of the benefits of telemetry. If you develop commercial software it is absolutely critical to gather as much data as possible. But again the goal of open source non commercial projects should not be success at all cost. But to argue about the benefits of telemetry for arguments sake, nope raw data is not really that useful, turning it into actionable insights is still a job on its own. Software has been developed without telemetry for decades. There is lot's of way. From getting testers to actual user surveys and so on.