you mean that the f-droid maintainers did not want to rely on mirrors that would log downloads?

sounds a bit extreme on the privacy front, but not entirely unusual. i see no relation to how the project is run though. on the contrary, i expect community run projects even more likely to reject logging because it only takes a few vocal people to demand that. meaning the more people have a voice, the more likely demands for privacy come up. see debian and their popularity counter for example when they could just log all the downloads instead.