Base iPhone is midrange device, not a flagship.

No company bigger than a few tens of people has principles. They have sales KPI, that go up or down depending on marketing campaigns.

If by “responsibly” you mean strip customers of privacy under old story of protecting children then sure.

Why are you manipulating people?

EU version has review process built-in. Anyways it’ll be hard to get more outdated than lightning.

They have to be certified by Mastercard/Visa, so no chance for open source. A few banks have their own implementation. Apart from mentioned samsung has its own version.

That’s easily detectable. Try beating Google Safety Net that way.

“Can” and “have a reason” are different things. With attestation they actually have a reason.