No, people really believe their nonsense marketing. The whole “FBI vs Apple” soap opera they cooked up after the San Bernardino shooting thing convinced a lot of people.

Meanwhile Apple preserves a backdoor in the iMessage end to end encryption (in the form of non-e2ee iCloud Backups) for the FBI.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-...

(iCloud e2ee availability is irrelevant; nobody has it enabled.)