That doesn't work either because Apple would have to be complete dullards to not realize that someone would found this obvious flaw within a week of the release of the OS. Especially right after launching a bug bounty.
iOS 10 has felt pretty buggy to me. Lots of little glitches here and there. We are still trying to get some hard data on a sneaky problem with random dropouts when using BLE beacons. I'd say this is more likely to be more of the same than a conspiracy.
You could say that it's not as common a problem and could be missed. But what do you say when the push notification is not working well with the new hotness and there is no fix. You need to uninstall, restart, install until the next update of your app is released and then you have to repeat that.
Perhaps not a full back door, but more of an open upstairs window?