I can understand a layman bashing Chinese companies for alleged spying but any engineer should know better if they're not interested in addressing similar issue

I can understand a layman bashing Chinese companies for alleged spying but any engineer should know better if they're not interested in addressing similar issues in American companies and government. I think the best way would be to require all software products to be open source (the source-available flavor, not duplication), and additionally create a culture that refuses to accept invasive tracking. A more ambitious approach would be to create a corps of engineers that develop high quality open source alternatives to the current tech stack with privacy as a paramount value - at bare minimum a new OS and browser. Dunno if either would be successful but this jingoism about which country's apps are more intrusive is obfuscating the problem.