Just an update to the situation.
The apology by Sid Sijbrandij was simply a diversion and whether we like it or not, telemetry is going to be implemented for sure.
Here's recent discussion thats being going on for implementation of telemetry
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/support/support-team-meta/issues/1926
and here's the issue where Gitlab team is trying to explain to users that they don't know it yet, but its for their own benefit
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com/issues/5672
Biting the hand that feeds IT
