At the end of the day, it’s between platforms (specifically iOS and Apple) and these exploit devs/traders, afaiu. That’s why Apple hates them. For better or worse, putting a torch under Apple’s ass is probably a good thing for the rest of us.
OTOH, you could argue that Apple should be more of top of these things and reward the security researchers better. Things are better than 20y ago, but still it’s probably more lucrative to sell exploits to these shady actors than to scrape the floor for peanuts in hope that mega corps will reward their discoveries.