re: Apple taking more shots at Google...

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Great, you could say the same about these being features of Google devices, they just allow everyone.

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"Allow everyone" in this context means "for free and not tied to a Google device." They can't simultaneously be developed as features solely intended to drive sales of Google devices (like Siri, Maps, etc. are for Apple) and at the same time don't at all need a Google device.

Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, etc. all existed prior to or completely independent of Google's devices anyway. Google didn't buy YouTube to give Pixel users something to watch. They bought it to make money off of advertising.

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Gating their info harvesters doesn't change their intent.

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It's not simply "gating," it's a completely different revenue structure which implies different motivations for the direction of their software.

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They don't spend millions developing Safari, etc out of the goodness of their heart to make your privacy better.

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No, but they might spend millions developing Safari privacy features to make it a superior product to earn your dollars as 100% of the users they're developing for are paid users.

Google is primarily an advertising company, Apple is primarily a hardware company, neither can be denied and one requires user data exploitation to survive and the other one doesn't. I'm not claiming Apple is the perfect bastion of privacy either, but their company structure doesn't require eviscerating privacy to survive like Google's has been.