I will. I am actually glad that the OS interacts with many different hosts. This allows me to set up fine-grained rules to prevent specific communication channels. The real information I am missing here is which ones should be left reachable to ensure proper maintenance of the OS.

Having a small number of hosts and smaller number of queries would likely result in a worse situation: queries would be impossible to filter because filtering 1 host would likely break too many things.

Also, in terms of telemetry, I consider Microsoft to be the disabled child in the classroom. I am sincerely convinced they have absolutely not the skills nor the vision to turn the data they collect into a process that could be personally harmful to me. Google and Apple, on the other side, specialize in employing engineers and product managers that have absolutely no concern to privacy. Their only constraint is to make sure whatever they do is lawful, which is, in my opinion, the worst way a company should behave. Until today, I haven't seen Microsoft do anything worrying except showing traces of telemetry collection in my router logs.