Eero app now requiring phone # and email to use???

I've enjoyed using Eero products for several years, and recently invested in expanding the network with Eero 6 devices. Just the other day I used the app as normal. Now it's asking me to create an account and provide a mobile phone number just to use the app. There doesn't appear to be a way to decline providing this information. I'm not happy about this at all and I'm pretty surprised no one else here seems to have a problem with this.