Why is it unproductive? Parent makes a point that non-US consumers don't care whether it's a US or Chinese product. Both nations have access to domestic company's data.

The original message was saying they couldn't understand / couldn't empathise with someone making a conscious decision to use xiaomi. I gambled that they make the same conscious decisions using US software, but only see their decision to do so differently due to a set of pro-US biases that others won't have.

It's difficult to look past such biases if they're deeply ingrained but I think this can definitely be productive to do so. If you can empathise better with conscious xiaomi users, and understand why people use non-optimal software, such understanding can have a lot of benefits.

There is nothing new about the question "why would someone buy cheap phones when they come with spyware". So someone asks a shit question and gets a shit answer.