I hope this proposal is defeated and they don't implement this. I don't buy the premise that the benefit is worth the price. I think CLI tools like the ones in the Go Toolchain and their usage patterns are fairly well understood by this point. I'm sick and tired of every piece of software I interact with phoning home.

That said, as long as they give me reasonable means to configure the software the way I want, it's probably not a deal-breaker for me. In other words, I will just set the $ENV_VAR_WHATEVER to turn this off, and that's that.