Maybe it's just me but the idea that my computer lets Apple (+ any LE organizations) surveil my app launches seems so much scarier than any malware.
I don't know about you, but hashes of the binaries I run don't exactly reveal any sensitive personal information about me. That said, obviously they should have much more graceful degradation in place for when something is wrong with the service.
"Hey Siri, select every Tor Browser user in America for additional screening."
Ironically, if tor was already running, the check would run over tor and not be traceable. But to start it in the first place it would be traceable. Damn.