Me too, I’m younger but very much in the boat of “paying for software quality with your privacy is usually a bad trade”. Nothing inherently needs to phone home,

Me too, I’m younger but very much in the boat of “paying for software quality with your privacy is usually a bad trade”. Nothing inherently needs to phone home, it’s a design choice rather than a mandate chiselled in a stone tablet. If people want privacy over speedier bug fixes that’s a legitimate thing to want. Open source users tend to be more privacy conscious anyway, even if Ultimate Guitar / Muse aren’t acting in bad faith (and they do have a bad reputation) then they’re showing a shocking lack of understanding about what they’ve taken over.