Extensions to me mean something that I explicitly choose to install (regardless of whether they automatically update). As far as I can tell, Zed goes about downloading code (“extensions”?) invisibly with no user input. See, for example, https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/12589

> or you have an "official" extension manager that rolls out an update every next year

As a debian user, sign me up!

They clearly just want the option to say yes/no to the downloads, hence the use of the word "nonconsensual".

Seems like a reasonable ask.

If you open a .cpp file it will silently download clangd in the background. Same is true for other language servers AFAIK.