I can exchange pgp keys with someone and send encrypted messages back and forth. No amount of funding or resources will ever be able to expose those messages. This is math. You sound like you are defending Apple for exposing journalists and activists when Apple, in fact, explicitly allowed remote code execution by untrusted actors.

They way you put it, these people fired up a quantum computer and broke the users password hash. What they actually did is the equivalent of an activex control owning a machine in a drive-by attack.