[anewdirection]

Thats admirable, but you are a minority within a minority.

[shadowgovt]

Honestly, if most "advanced" users turn off the features that Google uses to gather data to improve UX, it's strong signal UX isn't important enough to "advanced" users for Google to optimize for it.

[bosswipe]

It doesn't matter if .1% of users turn off their telemetry, their use case wasn't going to be optimized for either way. In fact the Google employees themselves are part of that .1%, they don't need the data to tell them what's important to advanced users.

[dataflow]

What? If most "advanced" users turn off telemetry then they want a terrible product?

[shadowgovt]

Then they're valuing other things more than a UX that caters to them.

[dataflow]

Yeah, like their privacy? Since when did getting a good product that respects your privacy become an oxymoron?

[shadowgovt]

Automatic metrics are only one tool in a toolbox that includes focus testing and design aesthetic.

But if a whole subset of users exclude themselves from that tool, they're going to get the UX that's only as good as the other tools in the toolbox are capable of building.

[dataflow]

You know software with good UX used to exist before telemetry became a thing?

[Jyaif]

But they don't have that signal...

[shadowgovt]

Missing data leaves its own wake. Google has numbers to extrapolate how many turn off usage reporting. They lack automated signal in how the users use the tools.