The problem here is that you might consider yourself a good actor here; polite, contact your fans only and only rarely with what they would consider valuable no

The problem here is that you might consider yourself a good actor here; polite, contact your fans only and only rarely with what they would consider valuable notifications. However. The world is not full of good actors, because bad actors can make $$$$ by selling your information to third party spam and scammers. There is no way, currently, to reward good actors, and punish bad actors… and the downside of the bad actors far out weighs the benefit provided by the good actors. So, while I see your point, the issue here is that in a wider context people are actively abusing that channel, and there no way to stop them without stopping everyone. So, sympathetic, but the problem here isn’t apple, it’s the folk who abuse and resale customer data… and I certainly don’t have a solution to that; but no one else seems to have one either.