“Apple, with their current tools, cannot unlock the phone.”
You don’t know that.
And yet you assert they can, which you also can’t “know”.
I have read enough about their encryption scheme to know they deliberately made it as hack-proof as possible, including severely limiting their own ability to break in. You assert that they already have tools such as the one being requested, whereas the company asserts they do not. They would know, not you.
The existence of such tools, especially any that allow both infinite attempts and remote (non-physical) access are invitations to abuse. Why are you so confident that the government would not succumb to the temptation?