Yeah. I ragequit Android when they went back on photo storage promises but wowza I did not think that Apple would be so bad at handling spam. Unless they get their act together I am ragequitting the Apple ecosystem back to Android for my next phone.
The phone changed but the carrier and phone number didn't. Pixel's robocall screening was evidently like that meme with the soldier blocking the arrows.
It decreases user availability to non-Google advertising vectors. I would also assume that if Google can figure out who's trying to sell what to you, they can use that to better funnel ads your way on their own platform.