[adamomada]

What I hope for is what amazon has done with the mic controls on a few devices (fire tv cube, echo, others?) where a teardown has proven that the hardware button to disable the mic physically disables the mic from possibly working while the light is on, and additionally makes it impossible for the software to enable it (until power cycle, where they have the firmware re-set it during boot and can verify it by seeing the light on again)

Making this kind of circuit mandatory and hopefully a default that you have to switch on is the solution to keep both groups happy.

I can dig up the article that shows the schematic if anyone needs evidence