> Can somebody explain to me how backdooring every app does not lead to the real risk of an entire population's bank accounts being emptied, or similar more hidden but widespread attacks that absolutely cripple any country doing this?

We already had this debate once before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

The answer is that it is a bad idea.

This also recently came up when huntress exposed what it could do with its tool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45183589 and then failed to understand why this might be a bad thing.

Or you know crowdstrike getting rolled in a supply chain attack: https://www.ox.security/blog/npm-2-0-hack-40-npm-packages-hi...

The government wants a back door to spy on its citizens, not realizing that any back door you build is rife to be exploited by anyone.