As one of the commenters in the original GitHub discussion pointed out, the package managers of most open source operating systems ultimately will/should packag

As one of the commenters in the original GitHub discussion pointed out, the package managers of most open source operating systems ultimately will/should package Go with telemetry turned off by default, regardless of the Go project’s default behavior. Good luck getting non-operating system biased data after that. Collecting non-operating system biased data seemed to be one of the stated goals to making the telemetry turned on by default. Otherwise it was posited that Go users on open source operating systems would disproportionately choose to keep telemetry off when prompted in an opt-in model.