1. They have to cooperate with governments, they're a public company. The key thing is their claims of E2EE have held up in all court cases so far, and the most they can ever provide are access logs and IPs.

2. Yes, I've had private conversations with them about this and sadly have not seen any motivation on their part to accept Monero yet. But they also have very poor/simple Bitcoin support so it's just not a priority for them, sadly. I would be hesitant to attribute it to ulterior motives.