This has reaffirmed my decision to use Tile. It seems it's now the most effective option for tracking my property among similar bluetooth tags. Stalking is awful but as you say there are many more effective tools for that, tools which will still be available to people who want to use them no matter what Tile does. If an effective product gets crippled - for a good cause, sure - but crippling it doesn't actually advance that cause, why do it?