> GitLab's proprietary Self-Managed packages (Starter, Premium, and Ultimate) are unchanged for now. We do plan to enable product usage tracking for those packages, but will absolutely allow administrators of self-hosted instances to have easy control over whether tracking is enabled. We will communicate clearly in advance of any planned changes, and will clearly document how to control tracking in each customer environment.

This doesn't seem like you're pumping the breaks "completely".

It's baffling to me that you would try to run telemetry on self-hosted PAYING customers. Seems totally backwards.