A reasonable solution if it comes to it would be to get a cheap android phone only for banking and whatever else doesn’t work on non digital ID platforms.

Semi related note: Is there any reason not to buy the cheaper SSD brands like kingspec and team group?

Bypass paywall:

https://archive.is/TN2Io

If we were talking about a company that makes toasters or bicycles or something I might agree with you. When it comes to an OS though, that’s where you store all your personal information and interact with your digital life. An OS can be updated to include malicious features and backdoors. The morality of the executives at the company making the OS could have a direct effect on you, moral arguments aside.