Age verification clearly doesn't belong into #systemd. We should have never merged this. Instead this should be incrementally added to the kernel itself. I'm doing my part:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260401-i-hope-someone-believes-this-is-real-04f24e03944e@brauner

[PATCH] vfs: require verified birth date for file creation - Christian Brauner

@brauner Remember, age gating will require verification, so you're going to need to send the user's private info to an online broker to verify, then store it somewhere any application can access to double check.

Don't forget you'll have to lock down what users can actually run or they might run something to bypass all this or, worse, edit it to be incorrect.

You'll probably have to make updates mandatory from now on or they might try to start refusing updates with such changes.