the fact that somebody was able to fork it and remove behaviour they didn't want suggests that it is very open

that #12446 PR hasn't even been resolved to won't merge and last change was a week ago (in a repo with 1.8k+ open PRs)

I think there’s a conflict between “open” as in “open source”, and “open” as in “open about the practice” paired with the fact we usually don’t review software’s source scrupulously enough to spot unwanted behaviors”.

Must be a karmic response from “Free” /s