How does one become trusted? If they regularly review and provide feedback that you agree with it can really speed up the process, even if you’re still double checking.

Any chance this is just an exposure of a built in backdoor?

It’s pretty clear that it’s Apps, not iPhone. But also… iPhone is responsible for holding application developers to their terms of service. It’s absolutely appropriate to criticize them for failing to deliver what they’re selling in terms of claims to a more private ecosystem.