Telemetry overall is bad because it moves general purpose tools into narrow hype focused niches. Find out what people want. Finding out what are doing in a limited toolset is only marketing
This is some kind od devops busywork? Say you are developing a app and you change the database 20 times: you write 20 migrations because every table and column name is cloned into variables and models in an infinite amount of places. Careful thought must go into these changes. If you are rolling back migrations in production you are in your own personal hell.
Its a long standing conspiracy theory which is hard to prove or disprove without actually being apart of the team that worked on the mission. I figure that even the people on the team might have doubts.
No matter how you spin it TDD is busy work for programmers. If its your only documentation then fine. Otherwise you have to write twice as much code for something that will be deprecated in a year.