The service isn’t advertised as being for anonymity.

“With Hide My Email, you can generate unique, random email addresses that forward to your personal email account, so you don’t have to share your real email address when filling out forms or signing up for newsletters on the web, or when sending email,” Apple’s website adds.

That seems pretty clearly to be meant to avoid simple things like spam on your main email. I can’t imagine most people expecting much more than that. There is always a special level of idiot, but most people would never assume that this would keep you protected from police.

Not to mention this was a result of a search warrant, Apple wasn’t proactively providing anything. So this is a non-story honestly. It’s exactly how the process should work. Someone made an explicit threat, law enforcement got a search warrant, the provider complied with the court ordered warrant requirement. This shit happens thousands of times per day and always have.