Keeping things simple.
This isn’t the first 3D game they made though. They made Solar Ash before this, and it’s honestly quite underrated.
Not to mention Lipton Ice Tea is rubbish. You can make your own for 1/10th of the price, and it’ll taste 10x better.
I wouldn’t mind an epilogue in God of War 3 that clears up what exactly happened before GoW 2018.
But for real though, they had to know that having telemetry be on by default wasn’t going to look good for the open source community.
Unless they rework half the game’s mechanics from the ground up, I doubt it.