Most likely there's some huge breach where all the IDs are stolen and resold, which would maybe fix this problem while creating a bunch of others.
The company that lost thousands of government IDs to hackers now wants face scans from everyone.
https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/discord-age-verificatio...
It's a hard argument to win because a) its impossible to concretely attribute scams to a data leak and b) most people think they would be immune to scammers. Meanwhile, it's easy to point to the problems this would fix.