If hiding these options behind a paywall is one of the ways they're getting people to pay for Telegram Premium - god what a fucked up concept to my stuck-in-the-90s brain - then I'm probably gonna scream into a pillow.
If instead the developers literally never thought people would want to disable that feature, I'll still probably scream into a pillow because of how goddamn *neurotypical* and *extroverted* a design decision that is.