I just did not see any indication of the permission actually being abused by this specific extension, hence the hypothetical. That's not meant to dismiss that it is an issue but in this specific case I think the communication is worse than the potential problem given that the devs don't seem to have a negative track record and actively work on mitigating it.

As for the redundancy, I blame my lack of coffee for that, apologies.

Ah that makes sense, thanks. I think this is the bit where we disagree:

I think the communication is worse than the potential problem

In that I think the communication is really bad but the 'potential' problem is more than potential and also really bad.