I'll try cutting it up since from experience sometimes mods never really get to "unlock comments":
This is a thing on apple phones since years.
Also your article only affects pixel phones. So yeah, tried on a samsung, my rog and razer, none of which would allow me to unlock the phone. Seems even on the article people noted that its only a pixel thing on the comment section.
So yeah, if you think thats scary, which was fixed within days of discovery, then how do you feel about your soon to be new flashy apple device that won't get fixed after months or years and once it does get fixed there will be a new way to open it because apple couldnt give less of a sht about their customers. Not to mention the fact that they datamine like mad and unlike google lie to you and make it impossible for your to turn it off.
Just little under 3 years late for a literal stealth malware planted inside an apple phone without physical access to it.
But hey, lets panic about pixel phones having a vulnurability that has been adressed within 3 days.