Thanks for the feedback here. It strikes me as a little crazy I may be infuriating you with a change and never even know if that was something I had to do?
> It strikes me as a little crazy I may be infuriating you with a change and never even know if that was something I had to do?
Oh, for sure! Just to be clear, I didn't intend my comment as a criticism.
It's nuts that you, as the developer, actually went so far as to remove features in your first pass, and Google still rejected that attempt without additional instruction.
An optional permission seems 100% reasonable.