I did not intentionally imply anything here, so if anything I wrote appears to include an implied component, that was not intended and may not represent my opinion.

All I'm saying is that the implementation Apple has described would be constitutionally blocked from being co-opted by US law enforcement. Obviously if there's no end-to-end encryption, any cloud operator could still be coerced into searching for material server side, as that falls under the so-called third party doctrine.