Again, the existence of X does not mean that all efforts to reduce the incidence of X were completely useless and therefore should not have been undertaken.
Fake iphones don't and won't use any genuine parts. So locking said genuine parts achieves absolutely nothing against fakes, so yes that does means that if that's the goal, it's pointless.
It's not about fake iphones. It's about taking a real iphone and swapping a part for non-genuine one that does something you don't expect (or find out)
