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I mean they just disabled advanced data protection which allowed normal law enforcement requests to access the data since they are not e2e encrypted if you don't use advanced data protection. I really don't think they needed to implement a new backdoor. They would just need implement a procedure that would fast track UK requests.

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That didn’t placate the UK government, because it didn’t just want access to British users’ data – it wanted access to any Apple user’s data from anywhere in the world.

I suspect that disabling advanced data protection in the UK was meant to let Apple say it was complying as far as it could while fighting the main order.

You still dont know who was lobbying the UK government to ask for this.

Apple didn't disable advanced data protection for those who had enabled it. Rather they removed the ability for new users to turn it on in the first place.

A future update was going to ask users themselves to disable it in order to continue backing up their phones to iCloud.

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