Would it make prioritization and decisionmaking a lot easier to have more information on stuff like the exact workflows people take in order to do things (stuff like who replies from their inbox vs who replies from their email vs who replies by loading the entry they just posted and going down the comments in flat mode like I'm doing right now, etc) and what parts of the site are most frequently used in a more granular fashion than we do right now: it sure would. Does the thought of doing it make my skin absolutely start to do that thing it does when someone just at the edge of my hearing is making some faint scraping sound that's just irregular enough that I can't tune it out: it sure does. (I've been getting even more crotchety in my old age, too: one of these days I'm going to finally snap and implement our own on-site browser analytics so we can finally ditch GA even though we restrict it to only site pages instead of journal pages. I've been wanting to ditch it for ages; we only look at it a few times a year, and only for aggregate data on browser capacity, etc, and not any of the more invasive things, but auuugh.)

I am a crotchety old privacy and anonymity advocate and I have been since I was in my teens and I've come to terms with knowing this about myself, heh.