Usually the bigger problem is exactly what is being done with that data. Most companies use it against the user (increase prices, make them buy more, deceive them, sell their data), but if it is genuinely used to improve the product and user experience it should be fine.

Now, I don't think an open-source project really needs usage analytics, because users can already get in contact with you and mention what they like/dislike about your product and what changes they expect.

On a website, or classic non-developer end-user project (e.g. website, web shop), customers rarely give feedback regarding the platform itself (or they rarely even know themselves what they want/how would they improve the platform).