This status quo is that a lot of countries want to use the CSAM argument to push privacy-invasive technology (cough UK) like e.g. forcing companies to allow the government to break E2EE to catch CSAM distributors. Apple made this feature while planning to move iCloud Photos to E2EE so that they could argue "look, we still catch x CSAM distributors with n < 0.x% false positive rate, even with E2EE photos. therefore you don't need to pass these laws that break E2EE."
I know "give them an inch, they take a mile" is a reductive comparison but I really can't see this way of thinking going any other way in the long term.
