IMHO, XP was the last decent, single-user OS Microsoft released. These days, MS has whole-heartedly gone for the trend of adding telemetry to everything, even retroactively adding it to prior Windows versions.
If this helps keep XP updated and viable as an alternative, so much the better. It's not as if MS will spend resources, let alone license 3rd-party support for older Windows. All those applications, games, and hardware you've invested means nothing to our tech overlords.
We must keep buying the new shiny!