Your opinion is that we can have age verification and enough freedom for you to be fine with it. Again, that’s perfectly fine. I do disagree with this personally like I said, but we could debate that.
However, it is just objectively true that technology would be less free with mandatory age verification though, to some degree. It’s a technical fact that can’t be avoided by the implementation.
I can list off the trade-offs and we can certainly debate how much the things we’re giving up actually matter, but we need to establish this baseline that there are things being given up compared to the current status quo that can’t be saved in this system.
I just want to be clear about this because there are people even here who believe that technologies like zero-knowledge proofs have only benefits and no downsides which is not correct. If your opinion is that the downsides are insignificant that is fine, but they still exist.