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captionobvious··on The slippery slope
More than likely it was done to protect the users privacy while keeping the exact same user experience. The protections were made behind the scenes with additional options made available to the user, but disabled by default.

The transitions from guid had the potential to break many apps so encouraging users to disable it would have likely caused many unintended side effects in addition to cluttering the ui and annoying users with unknown options.

captionobvious··on The slippery slope
This article is complaining about the steps apple took to prevent guid tracking but framing it as being done explicitly to trick the user.
captionobvious··on Majority Views NSA Phone Tracking as Acceptable Anti-terror Tactic
Anyone with strong views about privacy would never answer an opinion poll so how can this be considered accurate?