The collection of the data is almost never what’s problematic. What’s problematic is the lack of transparency about what is being collected (doing it to users in secret or burying it in a privacy policy somewhere), and the lack of a way for the user to consent or not consent to it via an opt-in or opt-out. If the company provided these, then this is kind of a non-story.
In this case, the author both found the information in the installer, and the apt has a "Opt out of Experience Sharing" privacy checkbox (which I would agree should be opt in, not out), so to me covers most of this.
