[madeofpalk]

It gets back to picking a purpose for the device and tradeoffs for privacy and the rest.

Airtags are not for finding stolen things. They're for finding lost things.

I think what you described is a privacy nightmare that Apple very rightly wants to avoid. They do not want to make a small device that is hard to find and doesn't give itself away to allow people to track each other. At Apple's scale, it will be abused and there would be significant negative attention on Apple for that.

[matt-attack]

Then why did Van Moof bikes adopt the Find My feature as a third party? No one really misplaces their bike. Surely it’s for anti-theft.

Pretty sure Van Moof is literally the first example of a third party Find My device and it sounds to me like it completely contradicts your (and Apple’s) statement about the scope and intended use of the Find My network.