How a lot of software development ends up in real life too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARGET_Instant_Payment_Settlement any moment…

If you ban smart glasses because of the camera, then you have to ban phones and that was tried and failed in most places.

A few years ago, some venues here in Copenhagen, Denmark started banning phones, i.e. you would have to place your phone into a small, locked bag for the duration of the show and then when you left the venue, you could unlock the bag and use your phone again. I think that was perfectly allowed.

You think publishers should not be allowed to decide when they want to stop selling their goods?

Even if you turn off the setting and it stays off in subsequent updates, how can you know that the setting actually does anything at all? That is to say how can you trust Microsoft does not ignore the setting and just gathers the data always.