I concur with you. There was a news report a month ago that the US Attorney for New York had about 175 iPhones sitting in an office somewhere, waiting for the FBI to break Apple down, so he could break into all those phones.
FBI's already reading live traffic on iPhones they like, no doubt.
Every phone call on an iPhone should be accompanied by a polite request for the FBI agent online to stop breathing so loudly.
In five years this planet will be awash in encryption the FBI can’t break. They are on a fool’s errand.