when you say it that way, yes for sure. but what do you expect of a large conglomerate? the phone isnt nessesarily ours, its theirs. its got their hardware in it, their software. its unfortunate, but its expected. they're gonna do what they want with it.

now if you were to perhaps, take the alternative hardware, configure it so it's plug and play and distribute it to persons, that could be a way to make it easier for people to reach.  actually it would be a decent proposal to startup a co that takes X phone, that is fully customizable, and performing the setups and selling them to clients interested in high levels of privacy, but little technical knowledge.