Further down in the thread, they claim that Warp is nearly as fast as Alacritty. Then a user points out that it isn't even close and their response is basically, yeah, we know that. We want to fix it.

How does a company expect lying on HN to work out well for them? I'm sure they're doing their best, and are excited about their launch. But they are coming off as so shady because they're trying to fool people.

If they really wanted to be open source but don't accept contributions at the time, setting up a read only minor with a proper FOSS license will be a good way to do that.

We tried to be really upfront in the privacy policy:

https://www.warp.dev/privacy

Opt-in refers to anything that sends any contents of a terminal session to our servers (as opposed to telemetry which is metadata and never contains any terminal input or output). But we hear the feedback and appreciate it.