Cognitive dissonance
Let's parse this:
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Thyla van der Merwe, cryptography engineering manager at Mozilla, said: "We plan to keep the override button for now; the telemetry we're collecting will tell us more about how often this button is used. These results will then inform our decision regarding when to remove the button entirely.
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So, collecting telemetry to see how often the override button is pressed, _but_ also making that button-press a one-shot global (per browser) thing, so that telemetry will only ever see a single button press per browser instance, probably wildly under counting button presses. In other words, throw out the very data that would enable a rational, evidence based decision, so we can count to 42 and proceed to do what we intended to do all along. Note that this is nominally an _engineer_ making that statement.Thankfully not a nuclear engineer or architect of major bridges.
This may be a correct decision, but the effort put into making the decision process flawed does not suggest that conclusion.
I used to think that _if_ we ever started to teach critical thinking skills to teenagers and below, after 20 or so years we might have people in power who knew how to make rational decisions. I think that ship (Vasa?) has sailed.