I guess a lot of owners of Apple devices are also making use of a lot of their services/features making it hard, or at least inconvenient, costly and time-consu

I guess a lot of owners of Apple devices are also making use of a lot of their services/features making it hard, or at least inconvenient, costly and time-consuming to switch out i.e. vendor lock-in with open alternatives. This is why it's good to try to avoid this situation occurring in the first place. But that's at odds with how you're 'supposed' to use their devices and ecosystem and you may as well have not chosen Apple in the first place. Most people have already gone 'all-in'. Too bad when they implement something (like this) that could be used to target innocent people at some point in the future. Apple obviously don't intend it to be used in this way. But a bit like the Pegasus debacle with it only targeting criminals, it's obviously a vulnerability waiting to be exploited.