Keep dreaming. Part of Apple’s market cap is based on growth in their recurring services revenue, and renting space from Apple for backing up the device people use for many hours everyday is a linchpin of being able to sell higher priced recurring services.

I have said this many times. Make a new Airport (with Wifi 7 since it is the latest), with some type of WireGuard/Tailscale-ish type VPN and with some type of storage that is in sync with iCloud.

Call it Apple Cloud Edge or something. (One can dream)