I can sort of back that for desktop apps but telemetry is so trivial for webapps needing a reproducer is almost an embarrassing admission the operator has no clue what they're doing.
Error tracking and tracing make it fairly straight forward to retroactively troubleshoot unreproducible issues.
The telemetry is almost always not voluntary and neither is the relation ship with the companies in the first place unless you mean that technically you could become a hermit living in the woods.
Error tracking and tracing make it fairly straight forward to retroactively troubleshoot unreproducible issues.