Forces me to fork your shit and remove privacy invasive parts. Consider my computer my home, and your telemetry a camera or microphone you're adding to my place.

If you don't ask me for permission first I have no reason to trust you will maintain any semblance of integrity in the long run.

Yes, it's the approach and principle of the interaction. If {{software}} asked to opt-in to collect anonymized/generic information, for what purpose(s), and how it was being stored/anonymized to "vote" for feature use/maintenance and how it was definitely not going being used, like not being sold to data-brokers, then I might say "yes".

Opt-out shows disrespect and that {{user}} is the product.