Very interesting way to put it.

Personally, the more I think about it, the more the "can of worms" argument gets relevant to me.

Once Apple is forced to write code as the Government wishes, for whatever reason, then it would have to constantly keep a shadow version of the code that complies with Government. Would this eventually be unsustainable, for technology or financial reasons? Would this eventually stop Apple from introducing new features that depend on encryption, or leverage some technology that would make it impossibile for the Government to break in?

I mean, this is so bad in so many ways.