The world is a sad place, the fact that we have to pay a premium so we don't get features.
We need companies to rise up against this bullshit. It won't matter until the customer base is educated in privacy.
We need a massive campaign to spread privacy awareness. Only then, there could be a market. Apple can afford to do this because they're big and they already have a customer base. A mid-sized company trying to sell privacy oriented products in a mass market is going to be left in the dust.
The society continues to regress. No one cares.