As usual on HN, Apple is always given the benefit of the doubt, where any article is interpreted in the strongest possible way in favour of Apple. Compare this to any article about Google, where anything they do is interpreted in the worst possible way for Google.
AMP was my favourite example. You could interpret AMP as Google ensuring a better experience for users, or as Google highjacking the web into a closed ecosystem to squeeze out competitors. HN threads about AMP almost always concluded that it was a terrible overreach by Google, anti-competitive, and bad for everyone. But an article suggesting that Apple maybe put the FBI ahead of users in this instance? Dismissed because OP is "inclined to believe."