Given it is open source software, I'd say we have not only recourse but self-determination here. It's also transparent what is being collected and whom it is being sent to. If you want to know what they store about you, it should take one email and a GDPR reference to find out.

I'm no fan of privacy invasion, always bother clicking through the banner to find the reject cookies option, and sent out plenty of GDPR requests whereas almost nobody else I know ever sent one. I'm not in favor of tracking, but collecting anonymous statistics, especially when they open with "privacy-preserving" and the business is not Facebook or Google or so where we know there's shit about to hit the fan, the cynicism and mistrust in this thread baffles me. Nobody minds when they browse the web and every site keeps access logs invisibly, but oh boy if someone announces keeping a visitor counter for a configuration screen to see if people can find their way to it