You know it’s still only photos being uploaded to iCloud that are scanned right? Or are you just totally unfamiliar with the actual issue? If you are familiar, can you explain the practical difference between these approaches that makes one worse?
Reading these comments, I think most people have only read Twitter outrage or the flat out wrong news articles conflating the new features. This is also on Apple as they had to know the CSAM on the client was a big deal and really needed it's own PR page.
What I don't want is Google performing a scan of the internal memory of my Android device!
Server side they can do whatever they want, and I choose what data they can access, but on my device not.