I have 2 smart phones, one on an OS called Symbian (remember that?) - no-one is writing snoopware for it. It plays music when I get a call, it pings for text and better still the provider texts me back to tell me how much my credit is now. I call & text on it, & at a push I could surf, but don't.
The other is used purely to control my cameras.

Some of us do "smart" and would do smarter if the apps would do useful things like run macros in the spreadsheet.