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They haven’t reduced their privacy stance, as far as I’m aware. In fact, the only public previous reduction was a concession to China over iCloud storage
And if you really want full privacy, storing data in Apple’s cloud storage was never ideal. Apple, like many other cloud storage companies, hands cloud storage data over to authorities if they’re given a warrant.
On-device storage is a different story though. Apple has a no backdoor policy for the iPhone and iOS, which is why they’re constantly getting into fights with law enforcement and government agencies. On device backdoors would offer a massive security vulnerability that would be exploited by bad actors.
Even if they disabled E2E, the data would still be encrypted, and they wouldn't have the key to force it to decrypt. Also, removing that feature would royally piss off their customers that they sold "security" to for a decade+.
Personally, I use their cloud storage. IMHO, the risk is low and the convenience is worth it for me, as someone in the US.