Then we will fight in the Shade...

Imo your line of thinking on all this is very high time preference... Submit to a platform lockin, walled garden, gate keeper ecosystem because that's where a lot of users are already.

Sounds a lot like why bitcoin if most people use fiat still?

I'm rambling but

At what point do enough phone users realize their chosen phone platform is hostile to them, they aren't able to use nice, useful features unless they ditch that product?

That's what happened to me a few years ago, I said enough is enough and ditched iOS and then macOS shortly after.