And for reference, they acknowledged that this was a problem two years ago but didn't fix it until now. It speaks to either a very lazy development ethic internally, or an outright distrust of their own audience when they speak up. Either way, this is not a product that deserves my telemetry, much less my salary.

It’s a for profit company. Seems pretty obvious why they fought for two years on this. They probably had to convince themselves internally that free users will be lured into paying for it to capture more revenue or something like that.