That’s pretty obvious (lol)
Its also very obvious that you’re living in the US and from individual privacy perspective you have “nothing to hide” (except for the corpses of those you shot down when trespassing on your property 
). Far from me to criticize the manner in which you understand and/or accept any kind or form of external intrusion in your life (or that of your loved ones), but as Malc already pointed out, here in the EU, we are very much privacy aware and even Google, Amazon and Microsoft (not to speak of Zucky-boy’s online “toys”) have been forced to adapt and "play " by different rules that they usually do in the US or the rest of the world. Any of the above named organizations, including Apple, Sony, and several others, have been inflicted heavy fines in the EU for breaches of individual’s privacy or misuse or abuse of their data (whether personal or not), so don’t take it the wrong way if we, from the “old continent”, do view this matter differently than most of you living outside Europe.
At the end of the day, one could argue that there isn’t any “sensitive” data BL gathers from us and our machines, and that anyone having such concerns could, as you’ve said, simply switch to LAN mode only and they’re safe.
The argument both me and Malc are making here has nothing to do with the type or amount of data BL gets from us, but rather the manner in which it considers appropriate to do so. Hidden settings, or imposing circumvoluted and non-transparent actions from users (without proper prior communication & consideration given to the free will and free choice of the targeted individual) would definitely result in very hefty financial and administrative sanctions against BL here in the EU.
That being said, everyone is free to decide for him/herself what is reasonable and acceptable data usage when it comes to each of them.