Yes Google calculated that users privacy means jack , users security means jack but as long as you can do what you want on ur phone and they can siphon off your data it’s all good.
Hate apple as much as u like but I’m very happy they lock the shit down and don’t turn it into my pc , my phone is for calls an texts privacy is important running bullshit is not.
A nation state virus that stole a cert is not a good argument against this , windows only started checking certs very recently please get your head out of the sand. It’s worked great for many years for us Mac users.