I side with you. A bit tongue in cheek, the 3rd option will probably this here: sooner or later this is going to end in another anti-trust trial or at least here in Europe, in a another regulation attempt.
Maybe they can look at how much spotify pays the artists who are literally their only product as well. They want to complain about apple rent seeking with part of their businees when their entire business is rent seeking.
They can fuck off.