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You have to look at jail breaking iOS as one of the most powerful security movements in the history of computing.
Every time a new exploit would come out, jailbreakers would open source it, give out every detail. So Apple could fix it. That made the OS very secure. Like, to the point where jail breaking is in one way no longer possible.
Remember the time when you could jailbreak your phone just by downloading a PDF file? Imagine jailbreakers not open sourcing that but selling it to a shady company or government. Suddenly, every PDF file you get in an email can complete take over your phone.
You’re right - exploits exist that these companies hide from the people and from mobile manufacturers. They do so because they’ve built multi-million dollar models for using these exploits against people they want to target. But is there a universal exploit for all iOS? No. If it were, someone would be loading cydia on it and uploading a grainy video on X or whatever.
I remember the days where jailbreaking didn't even need a download. There was a website you'd visit and there was a slider that said something like slide to jailbreak and then it was done! What a glorious time that was.