In a perfect world, yes. In reality, a friend lost his phone and forgot his Apple password. They were able to help him recover his data after he proved his ID to them.

For most people, data loss is much more of a risk than privacy loss.

I'm a member of the EFF. I backup all my own data. I have Advanced Data Protection turned on. I keep my handful Dogecoin in a hardware wallet stored in a safe deposit box. I am perfectly competent and willing to take responsibility for irrecoverably losing my data. Most people are not you and me, and defaulting to perfect privacy would cause much more harm than choosing best-effort.

> Yes: Purism with their Librem devices, including Librem 5 GNU/Linux phone.

I think they meant other vendors making devices targeted at the general public. There's always been a demand for devices that trade convenience for security for the relatively tiny market of people like you and me who value that choice. No way I'd set my older relatives up with it.