I trust Apple more than I trust some ROM maker not to install telemetry or something more sinister, honestly. Might be misplaced, but I can more easily trust Ap

I trust Apple more than I trust some ROM maker not to install telemetry or something more sinister, honestly. Might be misplaced, but I can more easily trust Apple has a financial incentive, if nothing else, to not to bad shit, whereas the unknown 3rd party could be a cool person who is doing it for fun, or they could be a state-sponsored hacker trying to get as much malware on the devices of technologists as possible.