Jesus, talk about holding a grudge and getting even.
I personally prefer to just be expected to take care of my phone and not have any method of tracking existing in the phone. I feel that anything that could be used to track your phone in the event of loss could also have a backdoor put into it, or vulnerabilities in general that governments, corporations, and hackers could take advantage of.
I turn on passcode and 10-attempt secure-erase, but I leave any tracking options disabled. I would outright delete those functions out of the phone if I could.
If it weren’t for the unarguable usefulness of GPS I’d actually prefer the phone not even have the hardware required for location tracking exist on it to begin with.
Actually, if Librem 5 didn’t have those things I’d still love to buy it. Something I’ve considered for a long time is to have a phone for other things, while buying a separate GPS device to use when I need it. I’d honestly prefer my phone and computer to be literally incapable of location tracking. If I need that kind of thing, I’ll use a specialized tool. I only need one during traveling and vacations and the likes.
Of course, the Librem 5 will have those functions I’m certain. Will just have to trust that the software is all clean and the system is resistant to anything bad.