[throw_me_uwu]

Requiring ID won't stop scams.

Often bank scams rely on sending money to another account (obviously registered with an ID), and then being drained at ATM. The account is going to be registered on a drop or another victim. Sure, it's burned after that, but as long as it's an insignificant cost, scamming is still profitable.

The same situation with malware, bad actors are incentivized to put effort into bypassing this, so dev accounts will be registered on random homeless people, stolen IDs, or just fake IDs. While normal developers will choose to give away IDs.

And as always, it starts with 'protect the children/elderly/vulnerable', then that authoritarian country requires Google to give away info on every developer to operate legally, then it's UK and other 'democracies', then you can't run your code on your device without the government approval.