Whether from a lack of experience with how these things can go badly, or from a lack of good faith in trying to understand others' concerns, it sounds like you simply don't understand why people would have issues with this. But you haven't clarified what your comments that, from my perspective, appear to be even more reactionary than the people you're accusing of being reactionary.
> This is a bad feature that should not be turned on by default.
Opine. Stating it matter-of-factly doesn't make it fact.
> You're effectively enabling the ease of search warrants of journalists and activists' search history
Here you pull the "think of the children!" card. All those poor journalists and activists using Workspaces. Your response is to bring up politically vulnerable outlier groups and parade them around to satisfy your own need to express moral outrage.
> it sounds like you simply don't understand why people would have issues with this
I don't understand why people want to be outraged for the sake of being outraged. It's becoming exhausting.
What's exhausting is having to keep up to date with how to continue turning off these awful "features" and arguing about how we don't want these features for the billionth time.
Again you take the worst-case interpretation, with a dash of ad hominem, to help you climb that moral high ground you seem fond of.
> about how we don't want these features
So you speak for the whole of Google's customer base?