You're conflating the convenience of backing up vs being able to access data even with lost recovery keys. People are certainly choosing convenience over priva

You're conflating the convenience of backing up vs being able to access data even with lost recovery keys. People are certainly choosing convenience over privacy in that any backup is preferable to no backup. However, Apple does not give the option to choose E2E or not so users cannot make that choice of privacy vs convenience. You're assuming that people choosing iCloud over not-iCloud means people do not want E2E. It may be the case that people prefer E2E but this is not evidence of it. Furthermore, I don't believe iCloud backups were ever E2E and that it was a feature that was removed. Apple states which iCloud services are E2E[0] and these services I'd argue are pretty straightforward to setup and not lose. Most of the time you don't need a recovery key, just to be logged in on another device. Even if it is the case that most users do not want E2E, there's certainly a large audience (outside of just the HN bubble) that do want it. They could make it optional. [0]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303