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I think it makes sense for age of adulthood to be a graduated system for different perks at different ages.

If we ever make “K-16l” schooling free I suspect it will come about in tandem with increasing the perceived age of adulthood.

Meanwhile I do believe that 14-18 year olds should be provided far, far more agency than they currently are.

That is an interesting idea, but hard to implement in practice, to only allow mature enough people to vote. Being mature means different things to different people, but I suspect that even we we agreed on a definition we would find that a lot of adults would not qualify.

You could argue that an adult shouldn't be represented by someone they didn't have the ability to vote for or against. But in that case you would probably need to lower the voting age even more.