Isn’t “half one” used as a short form of “half past one” these days, I.e. 01:30? That has been a source of confusion for someone used to the Germanic way.
If the implication is that what you’re doing would be rejected by 99,9% of users if they were asked, then you should reconsider either what you’re doing, or how you’re presenting it to them.
Opt-in can boil down to a simple non defaulted choice during installation.
I find that the crowd here isn’t all that privacy absolutist (ala EFF).
The views I see on stuff like telemetry or ad tracking tend to lean towards that either being inevitable, or just the cost of doing business.
Sure you have some of the privacy absolutists too, but the crowd seems more varied, with perhaps a slight skew the other way, at least to the Slashdot of yore.
That could also have been avoided by not rewriting in Electron, which I truly think 0 users wanted, whereas the old app warranted nominations for the Apple Design Award.
It’s still not too late to reverse that decision.
Incidentally, how would telemetry tell you that people miss a removed feature if said telemetry was not in place before removal?
I personally dislike subscriptions to the point where I’d gladly pay more to own, and as this thread shows, I’m not alone.
So why not offer both?