I’m not excusing burning down innocent people’s property

I’m not excusing burning down innocent people’s property, but Teslas are not cheap.

I doubt anyone who’d lose one would have their life destroyed.

The issue seems a bit misrepresented by the dev.

The mentioned section of the privacy policy is true only for the logged in users that have agreed to voluntarily share their data.

Without logging in they don’t even store a single cookie on my device.

There’s no reason an app should be more trustworthy than the email.
It’s pretty standard for scummy companies to make the process as annoying as possible.

They already said they don’t want to.

They asked you to install the app on purpose, in hopes that you’ll decide it’s too much hassle and decide not to delete the account.