I've never enabled Pocket. Surely the updater can tell that I'm not a Pocket user?

Why can't Mozilla realise that most Firefox users use it as a browser, rather than as a pathway to someone else's idea of "curated content"?

Don't they believe that, after pushing this non-optional "add-on" for 15 years, they've achieved market saturation, and that everyone that wants it is already using it?