AirTag is one of many ways you can be stalked. Perhaps it’s the cheapest or most well known method at the moment, but you can already buy GPS + cellular trackers that aren’t much more expensive or larger, and they’re only going to get better and cheaper over time.

This problem will need to be addressed though other means than a single company intentionally crippling their own product.

Most consumers are not concerned someone wants to stalk them. Few people have experience being stalked.

I think the problem is people have to decide "I'm not going to buy this because if nobody buys this then people won't be able to buy this and use it to stalk people." In other words, the consumer gives up a product they want in exchange for a common good they get an infinitesimal benefit from.

Obviously not, given what their smartphone apps and browsers are doing. The real question is whether the though of being stalked by an individual rather than by corporations will make any difference.