Starlink, rockets that operate like airliners, and there just might eventually come something out of neuralink and FSD some day. Also, how many companies in the US aims to build humanoid robots at scale? To me it looks like in many fields the situation is China vs elon, unfortunately.

They would stop taking absurd risks for sure, which would result in lower rewards but overall a bit better still. No more industry-changing projects though.

I would imagine that having a full control of the underlaying system would allow a wrapper to be developed for the Play Services, so it would not to be able to spy on you so well. Just feeding some partially spoofed data to it, or even whitelist it to work only with the apps that require it.