Big difference between the business people that want to have site visit numbers for their pitch deck, and the engineering people making the OS. That said, I totally agree that using the most notorious tracking website out there on your landing page for a privacy product is a bad choice.

Just like Apple does, if you can't audit the source code and build it yourself, the use of the keyword "privacy" is just a marketing gimmick.

You can audit the source. There is very little closed, and that is primarily the android bits. I don't use those.

It only pulls Google Analytics, not exactly nefarious software.

This is THE tracking implement of them all. “Not exactly nefarious”... bajezus.