Having studied what @Kaspersky found when they dismantled the malware known as #operationtriangulation, I believe it is clear that Apple designed functionality onto the SoC from Bionic A12 to A16 for a purpose.
There are links to the fanstatic forensic work by Kaspersky researchers in my opinion piece, kudos to them for exploring all avenues to get answers.
This is possibly the best malware every chained together and Apple would never have intended the feature - burned into their chips - to be abused like this.
https://www.ciso.pm/operation-triangulation/