Can we talk about the fact iOS/macOS turns on the Wifi and Bluetooth radios after each system update? Almost as if the devices were made deliberately to maximize spying, contrary to the marketing lullabies.
Hanlon's razor: Apple is just lazy and defaults all these things to on, rather than keeping tract of the settings since they are used or needed by 99% of people. Apple loves its Bluetooth keyboards and mice, after all.
I don't think so. Apple likes to collect data as much as anyone else, they're just better at hiding it with euphanisms.
To wit: iOS requires precise location be enabled just to show weather on the home screen; I can't set a static location and just get the weather report for that place.
The whole thing just reeks of willful surveillance anti-patterns.