[Crysstalis]

The cold brutal truth is that open source developers need jobs too. That has always been the case.

>You might as well put binary blobs in a GitHub repo and call it 'open-source'

But this has not happened.

>and have telemetry baked in stealing our usage data

This is not related. I don't think there is any open source or free software that will ever stop that. They actually don't want to stop it. They would consider stopping that to be a violation of the OSD "no discrimination against fields of endeavor" criteria or the FSF "freedom zero".