If Apple had really wanted to fix this years ago, since NSO started operating, they would have offered something like $10 million dollars bounty (a trivial amount for a company with hundreds of billions of dollars in cash laying around).. sufficient to induce any one of the hundreds of engineers at NSO with access to their repositories/knowledge of the exploit, to jump ship and flee to the USA to collect it. That they didn't speaks volumes about how serious Apple are about security.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
