It is worse than that. Organisations are structured to make accounting easier. Software is architected by accountants.

MS will erect another campus and things will go back to “normal”. Hopefully this will last at this time…

Good documentary about MS hold over German government: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duaYLW7LQvg

Any form of surveillance used by any government will be used primarily for political reasons, against non-criminals. There is no such thing as Good Spyware.

“3 billion” devices with multiple vulnerabilities that sound like RCE via things like video playback with “fixing them requires a long chain of communication between many vendors, manufacturers and resellers” sounds like a total disaster to me. Many (most?) Android phones in use will never see an update!