This is spot on, and this is why bulk surveillance is so dangerous. It would not surprise me to know that the FBI has already started following/spying, and tasked the NSA to electronically monitor key Apple representatives and their lawyers. If they can find anything shady, they can then use that of individuals to try and use that as leverage.

The key point here is that if the USG find a way to force Apple and Apple engineers to do this work then the government, by default, they must have too much power.