The headline is intentionally inflammatory and absurd. Look around the large hardware and software manufacturers and ask which one is working the hardest to protect your privacy and and security. It’s certainly not Chinese-owned Lenovo for crying out loud.
One of the mitigations is that macOS requires apps to be signed, so the malware needs you to install a signed version of itself, forcefully install an unsigned version, or hack an existing software and use it to sign itself. Not the best but could certainly be worse.