Xaggerated reality maybe

But wouldn’t it be better if they chose to obfuscate it. Are there any inherent disadvantage in doing so?

ZorinOS used to send anonymous pings and the user did not had the option to opt out. https://zorin.com/legal/privacy/before-31-may-2018/ Seems now its an opt in service.

Tried it when I was starting out. But I may have read somewhere that it uses telemetry. So uninstalled later.

Yes I could see this being helpful for many. But I feel jellyfin’s metadata scrapper is helpful for maintaining a library. But for a quick watch, this should be more than fine. Also I feel this must have better performance.