Tile predated AirTags for nearly a decade and is still worse on privacy today. If you want to argue that consumer-level trackers shouldn't exist, that's fine, but it's not at all unique to Apple.
Personally I don't think it's a solvable problem, and they shouldn't exist at all.
> yes, I agree, if it can't be done in a way that can be abused, it shouldn't be a product.
What about knives, alcohol, cars, escooters, power tools, rope, bleach?
These are all products that can be abused. Should they also not exist?
There will always be a new product that can be abused. Education and threat of punishment keep a lot of people from abusing them. The same can be true for AirTags.
Any half-competent EE can throw together the equivalent of a Tile or AirTag with off the shelf parts nowadays. That genie is out of the bottle and has been for years and years
Personally I don't think it's a solvable problem, and they shouldn't exist at all.