I don’t see it that way.
So, if the government (say, the IRS) wanted access to your personal data, you would be completely and unabashedly on board with providing the government the keys to get it?
You cannot be a little bit pregnant.
Either you are okay with the sacredness of your private papers and possessions, or you are not.
No government should force a person to break into someone else’s private information. Sure the government owned the phone and they were within their rights to break the code themselves.
Just as the Patriot Act was bastardized for other purposes, there is no compelling reason to allow the government access to my private information.