> If you really have the resources to do that, then nobody, not even Apple, is stopping you from hiring a team.

That's the crux of the matter though. Apple can stop me from hiring a team. They can do anything they like, because they have retained ultimate control over my [1] device, even after purporting to sell it to me.

[1] - "My device" is only rhetorical of course - I don't actually own any iOS devices for reasons that should be obvious by now.