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Using the Honey extension's approach to "unfucking" a broken system, eh?

For what it's worth, I can think of a non-evil reason to do this (i.e. telling people "there was a bug in our mail filters and we're accidentally throwing away important emails, update immediately").

It's probably safe to assume this is a marketing trick, though.

Well we can rule out the former given that randomdailyurls is included in the "Mark as nonspam AND important" list..

They don't require your email address to download the filters, so how exactly do they get your address in order to deliver this non-evil allow-listed notification email?

It's likely they thought: "What if our existing users/subscribers use these filters? Our own emails will end up archived?! No we can't have that..." and thus they fell into a trap of their own making. Perhaps it's 'lawful evil' to think their own mailing lists are good and everyone else's are bad? Lol.

Great idea. Maybe Mailchimp needs to make their own consumer email service.

I think that might be intended as an example of how to allow a specific newsletter only

Then it should use example.com and not their own newsletter. This is pretty shady.