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I assume for the same reason the OS pings Cupertino when you run a binary - surveillance, masquerading as protection.
Fun activity: install glasswire on windows for a day or 2, set it to prompt you before any connection is allowed, and watch as about 500 different windows components attempt connections with Microsoft as a result of any and every action. And how many onedrive exes randomly fire off throughout the day despite having never once used it. And how onedrive changes its version number every day when it realizes it can’t connect.
Probably Handoff and cross-device application state syncing.
Everyone wearing their tinfoil hat while using Gmail and drive for everything
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One Apple Mail feature nobody here has commented on was called Piano Mover internally. I don’t know the public marketing name. It lets attachments over 10MB in emails be replaced with iCloud hosted file references.
I wonder if "Piano Mover" is a reference to the Goon Show episode called "Napoleon’s Piano" [1]

If you like absurdly silly comedy; Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, you should track these down. These were made in the 1950's for BBC Radio.

[1] https://goonshow.org/goonshow/s6p4/

It's previous recipients synced over iCloud.

Run this and then send an email to see it: log stream --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.cloudkit"' --info --debug