Not only should telemetry be optional, but a failure to send it should not result in the application refusing to run¹. With a host-level block of PostHog, the server crashes with:

Post "https://app.posthog.com/capture/": dial tcp x.x.x.x:443: connect: connection refused

1: https://github.com/slashbaseide/slashbase/blob/a7cb7871b07a9...