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You're right of course. But just to add - 'reproducible builds' is an ongoing attempt to make hash comparisons practical.
It’s also a lot easier to do this on a desktop/server environment. Doing this on a popular mobile device would be difficult, and would require the OS developer be involved (and I doubt Google or Apple would be that open)