It's not about age verification and it never was, that is a distraction at best and a delusion at worst. This is about tying your real name to all of your online activities, and about getting the current generation of children used to it and accepting of it before they reach voting age.

Discussion on the mentioned age verification hub here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46223389

Paradoxically this is one of those features/requirements that i feel should be on the end-user-device with zero knowledge proof.

It would make sense to have the enduser verification ondevice with a simple reply to any online property : Passed age verification/or not.

Otherwise the centralization and eventual leak of this data is a can of worms in waiting.