Yeah, I can see how a lot of people would want the email obfuscation but I don't--especially as I was polishing off a blog post about how ideologically pure my website is, with no javascript or external resources!
I got rid of GA because Cloudflare provides some analytics and that's enough for me.
I actually recently got rid of GA because I didn't want to have to add JS to implement a cookie banner to comply with EU regulations.