I think that Kapersky employs some of the best security researchers in the world, and I think they're fundamentally under the thumb of the untrustworthy Russian government. You can claim the same about the US, you can believe the same about the US, but for most US persons and large corporations the threat of the US government is substantially smaller than the Russian.

Russia is right now a rogue state. Rogue in the definition of "cut off from the rest of the world", whatever else you think of them. The repercussions of hostile actions towards their customers were tempered by their effects on global geopolitics, but that's no longer a threat now that everyone is hating on Russia already.

Whataboutism has it's place, but practically the threat model has to be evaluated with perspective. US corporations see Russia as a threat. They do not see the government as the same form of threat.

I'm personally of the opinion that the best antivirus is no antivirus, for certain.