>I' ve been issued a German identity card, which is its own computer that includes a digital identity already.
Then keep using it, instead of the not-mandatory app?
> I also own an expensive card reader, which together forms a system that is completely capable of supporting any attestation anyone would need.
Sure. In the mean time, do we tell the other few dozen millions that don't have an expensive card reader to go fuck themselves, or can we get to work on a solution that, even if not ideal, makes their lives easier?
> They should just stop excluding me already.
They aren't. You said it yourself, your ID is in your pocket.
Government services are going to drop support for the old scheme the minute they start supporting the new one.
Sure, that's why they stopped receiving paper letters for tax declarations once they setup Elster.
Oh, wait, they didn't, my bad. You can still declare your taxes with good old paper. The only people that can't are self employed, and that's because they have a different set of obligations with higher demands
Telecoms shut down 3G once 4G had rolled out. TV networks killed DVB-T after DVB-T2 went live. Banks have abandoned FinTS for app-based 2FA.
Your comment compares a paper-based, non-digital process with a digital one. My criticism, however, is about abandoning an old digital (but vendor-neutral and inclusionary) process in favor of a new (and discriminatory) one.