Interesting. It’s good that they gave you such an honest answer about that!
Yes, but let’s not be too hard on them. We live in a world where practically all (more than 99% I guess) smartphone users are running Google/Apple operating systems. Most people in fact live in that world, where those operating systems being used is just the way it is, it’s not something most people think they can change, they don’t even consider the possibility.
Here on this forum are some folks who are actually trying to change that, but we are a strange bunch and Purism is a strange company trying to do something so very difficult.
My point is that for most of the “normal people” out there, the choice of smartphone OS is iOS or Android and there is nothing else available in their world. Then, in that situation, it is not strange that they try to develop and use “secure and private” apps that are as secure and private as possible within the limitations of the world they live in.
There is also, I think, an effect at play here where we (human beings) have a hard time opening our eyes to some new knowledge in case that new knowledge is severely disturbing our current way of life. Like, if someone spent a lot of time and effort on building a “secure and private” app for iOS, perhaps made a whole career based on that, then starting to talk about how that app that they worked so hard on cannot be trusted because iOS cannot be trusted, is a really big step to take. Much easier not to talk about it and not to think about it.
I don’t mean this as any defense of the status quo, just as a way of understanding why it is difficult to change things. People are reluctant to open their eyes to something if it means their whole world falls apart.
Anyway, congrats on taking the “red pill”, now there is no way back. 