And not the user of the phone that is reporting the location of those tags to a stalker? Their interests are important too.
Anyways, I don't think there was ever any intent for AirTags to function as an anti-theft tracking device. Anti-theft is much harder to do well than anti-loss (which is what Apple is targeting), and is very difficult to distinguish from stalkerware for a mass-market product.
That’s anti-user. The user is the one trying to do the tracking.