I’ll offer this as a power user: I do everything I can to avoid feeding back info to the corporations. I shut off telemetry, usage stats, block ads, actively monitor updates for undesirable changes, don’t enable quick start or other background software, don’t enable a lot of startup software or processes….etc etc. basically to prevent them looking over my shoulder as much as possible.

So if you’re that kind of power user it actually works against Microsoft’s interest to allow you to opt out, you’re already “costing” them lost opportunity to make money.

And of course we have to deal with the fact that getting the software “free” means you don’t own it and have to play by their rules.