I already did. Much of the stuff you mentioned has always been enabled and had nothing to do with telemetry. This is most obvious with the update checks. And yes, you DO need to send information to know which add-ons to update. Probing every installed add-on to see if there's an update amounts to sending over the list of installed add-ons. Let's be forthright about that.

I quoted an article from one of the Telemetry engineers explaining that now LESS data is collected by default.

I think that's a good enough rebuttal to your claim that there has been a change of direction to collect more.