> How are people being obtuse for refusing to compromise for solutions on a problem which doesn’t exist?

I'll give you the benefit of doubt and assume you're just not well informed.

Millions of people are losing billions of dollars. Women are having their private media published to the masses. People are getting divorces, fired from jobs,etc.. because of android malware. The problem is nearly non-existent on iPhones to the most part, because they lock that down (but now thanks to "my freedom" type of freedom abusers are changing that too).

Apple already does this. You can't publish a driver for Windows without verifying your identity and buying an expensive code signing cert. Google isn't doing anything new, matter of fact, they're not doing enough! this still permits things like lineageos and other android builds to be installed -- that's your freedom. But since the prevailing sentiment is to resist a more secure way of doing things, the outcome will be that all smartphones will only load signed kernels/firmware in the future, and all signers will be required to id themselves, this will kill a lot of android builds.

This is why compromise is important. Your liberties are important to you, but you can't just dismiss the harm to the masses like that and refuse to find a compromise or a solution, that's how you lose what little freedom you have.

This is why things like "chat control" keep creeping up, and they will succeed down the road.