Technical people can struggle when a choice isn’t a zero or a one.

I mean, I interpreted that as acknowledgement that Lemmy is still 1% the size of Reddit, for example.

It’s believable. If 25% of the warrants they receive are for location data, there is a shed load of money to be saved by simply not storing it.

Probably simple math, whether or not the stored location data is more valuable than the cost of legal compliance.