So the FBI publicly fueding with Apple over encryption is all just misdirection? I dunno about that

More a matter of who has what when. The FBI is ass and anyone there I would have vouched for retired a bit before 2016.

That aside, it doesn't change their extensive history of ensnaring and enabling mentally deficient young men to incriminate themselves.

You could attempt to argue that anyone they can do that to is inherently a risk or threat because any other group could have done the same, but at the same time this approach broke containment and is being directed at a markedly more pale demographic, ie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Base_(neo-Nazi_group), with seemingly no counterplay

The "feud" happened only a year after the Snowden leaks revealed Apple's cooperation with the FBI.

Both of them needed a PR win, and San Bernardino gave both sides exactly what they wanted. If it wasn't collusion, it was certainly convenient for Apple and the FBI both.