Not sure, but Mozilla had taken another PR risk by sponsored contents to the Packet integration [1]. So we need to keep our eyes to Mozilla.
On wrecking Normandy, you can actually see all enabled recipes [2] and nothing seems smoky. It even seems that the hotfix (id=721) was used to unbreak Office 365, supporting the positive uses of this system. But I strongly agree that there should be more approachable list of them.