Yet, most people fall for the E2E-encrypted iMessage story, while the Messages are only encrypted at rest when you have iCloud Backup enabled (I’d guess most people) and ADP disabled (I’d guess most people). The fact that I have ADP enabled doesn’t matter because most people I communicate with don’t have ADP enabled (or know what it is).

This is all only mentioned in the footnote of an iCloud security document [1].

Apple cares about your privacy, so much that they made a backdoor through bad defaults, well in reach of the CLOUD Act.

[1] Footnote 9 in https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651