By the same measure, Apple is deceiving everyone too. Apparently, they can't enable the phone's "icloud backup" because someone changed the icloud password. Do

By the same measure, Apple is deceiving everyone too. Apparently, they can't enable the phone's "icloud backup" because someone changed the icloud password. Doesn't Apple have old passwords -i.e can't they restore the old password from backup? And presuming they can't (why?).... can't they simply modify the server-side to not check for password for a given account, and accept just accept any password for backing up?