If it is indeed the case that any country's EIDAS (electronic identification, authentication, and trust services) implementation requires an account with a third party tech company - Apple, or Google, or whatever - then that is repugnant and reprehensible.
@neil
Is this US (don't care, never going again) or is this a wider trend?
@neil
If it's US, then perhaps insisting US visitors have paid up membership of the Monster Raving Loony party or some pagan EU sect could be our quid pro quo before getting a visa?