In no way this is accidental. It started with the social media licensing requirements, DNS redirect and the online safety bill that passed last year and the "ban" being the latest move recently. I don't think you missed it as you voted on the post.

Governments around the world are also now pushing their digital ID apps to be pre-installed on every new phone together with the long list of uninstallable bloatware. Here it has already been integrated into practically every government service (i.e. phasing out physical ID and mandating the use of the digital ID for authentication of government and telco apps).