I'm sure it's easy to argue, "that's way overthinking it" except I didn't come up with this thought to write an article for a blog or whatever - this hit me *immediately* within the moment as I watched the ad. I was cringing before it was even finished. I think I even uttered, "ugh that's really bad optics, Apple" under my breath.
IMO, it's damming that no one in the (likely long) chain of people who had to approve the ad was willing to think different about it and go back to the drawing board.