When a simple Google search reveals the exact pattern mentioned occurring again and again, not just with phones but with networking gear, laptops, TV's, IoT devices, CDs (Sony rootkit anyone?), and websites loaded to the max with trackers and secret downloads onto people's machines, it moves from pessimism to "this is just how it works."
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. You want crap free gadgets, make them sell crap free gadgets by ratting them out when they sell gadgets loaded with crap.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. You want crap free gadgets, make them sell crap free gadgets by ratting them out when they sell gadgets loaded with crap.