How do I download all of my Apple Account and iCloud data (Photos, Videos, Contacts etc.) as ZIP files (Google Takeout but for my Apple Account)?

I figured it out pretty much as soon as I posted this question. You just go to privacy.apple.com and login, and then choose the top option after logging in to download a local copy of your data, then you put a checkmark next to everything you want to download (so make sure to check things like Photos, Videos, Contacts etc. if that's what you want but I recommend checking everything), then choose the ZIP file size (I choose the largest size of 25 GB), and then you wait a couple of days until you get an email with a download link.

Thank you, but the information mentioned in that "Archive or make copies of the information you store in iCloud - Apple Support" article is really not very helpful since it's a super tedious process where you have to basically download everything manually, but as I figured out you can just go to https://privacy.apple.com/ to download everything as a single ZIP file. Apple should really advertise that page more since it simplifies things a lot, just like Google Takeout but for iCloud instead - they should call it  Takeout or iCloud Takeout.