Ugh. Telemetry driven development is the bane of my computing life. It insidiously causes some devs to use it as a substitute for actual thinking instead of as a support.

I doubt that's the case here. And in open-source, it's absolutely vital, since you don't get to interact with your user-base otherwise, except through forums/discord, which carries an enormous bias (the only people who interact this way will be technically-focused anyway, while your "normal" goes unnoticed, which is especially likely now that the SteamDeck has jumped into so many non-techie lives).

This article has reminded that I turned user-feedback off when I last installed, thinking that I'd turn it on later. And I forgot to do so! It's now on, at one setting lower than maximum. Nice wee app, integrated into Settings.