Thoughts on introducing opt-out telemetry in Pi?

tldr;

* Pi becomes part of for-profit Earendil Works to raise VC money

* VCs want to see the total addressable market (TAM) of Pi

* npm downloads are "inconclusive" because openclaw

* Mario wants to enable opt-out telemetry in Pi

* Mario claims pretty much everyone is OK with this

I dunno, my personal agent sending telemetry because the dev needs to beg VCs for money seems like a no-go. There's a ton of open-source software out there that doesn't do this. Sure, those projects don't have big VC money. But why not be up front that you just want the $$$ and don't want your users to notice that you're logging them?