Consent for complex issues is a cop out for addressing privacy concerns. Users will accept or reject these things without any understanding of what they are doing either way. Apple seems to have taken a middle ground where they de-risked the process and made it a default.

This is a “look at me, Apple bad” story that harvests attention. It sets the premise that this is an unknown and undocumented process, then proceeds to explain it from Apple documentation and published papers.