If there was no pivot, then there wouldn't have been an API for getting a unique identifier for this device in the first place. Given that they only recently n

If there was no pivot, then there wouldn't have been an API for getting a unique identifier for this device in the first place. Given that they only recently neutered this API, that seems like a pivot. If you consider that this change was only made in response to criticism that the ITP privacy protections added to Safari were forcing content creators to move from the open web to their app store to remain profitable, then the change seems more like it was forced by the PR pivot than something they were doing out of principle.