The thing with Apple is, you can never tell whether this is genuinely done to protect people from breaking their workflows that rely on these features, or becau

The thing with Apple is, you can never tell whether this is genuinely done to protect people from breaking their workflows that rely on these features, or because they just really want that data. And if this really is Apple just looking out for you, they could have added a small warning to the "disable" option about the sort of functionality you'd miss out on. It all comes back down to a lack of communication or trust.