Note how the conversation is actually about removed features, and inability to opt-in to unwanted features. This isn't a vehicle where you must choose between 2

Note how the conversation is actually about removed features, and inability to opt-in to unwanted features. This isn't a vehicle where you must choose between 2 or 4 wheels, but is a service where your purchase is sabotaged if you opt to prevent it from being sabotagable via an unnecesaary network connection. To use identical rhetoric, an air-gapped network is useful, and consumers need the ability to directly monitor and maintain devices in their custody, so there should be a mechanism for them to do so.