I don't get the point of your post response, other than: "whatever they tell me to do, let's everybody do the easy thing and embrace it out of convenience".
All I'm saying is to know what you're not going to be able to do if you don't get Real ID (or a passport). Doesn't look like Real ID will be required for the financial realm, as I had previously posted ... but financial institutions are free to demand the IDs they need, so I don't put it past them.
I'm now retired, and one of the big things I always intended to do at this stage of life was travel - and most of that is by air (by necessity). If I have a trip of under 400 miles, I would probably drive (just so I could take as much of my stuff as I could possibly need). Between 400 and 1,000 miles, it's going to depend on how long I intend to stay at the destination. Above 1,000 miles I'm going to be flying unless I'm staying at the destination for a month or more. I've got four living siblings (one in an international location), an uncle, a daughter, and many friends - all of whom are over 1,000 miles away from me. Needless to say, I have been and will continue to be traveling by air; and that's going to require a Real ID (or passport). I already have a passport (my career required international travel), so probably won't need Real ID (I had been under the mistaken impression that my state would no longer be issuing driver licenses without the Real ID caveat - which is where my take on Real ID for financial transactions came from).
Current compliance with Real ID includes 38% of all issued driver licenses (how many more than that intend to fly domestically?). 42% of the American public hold passports (how many more than that intend to fly internationally). I'm guessing that the market for those needing Real ID or passports to travel is already pretty well saturated; with just a few stragglers remaining. And it's those stragglers (who don't have those documents but will need them) that you're counting on to "defeat" the system.
Real ID was originally scheduled to be implemented sometime in 2020. It was never resistance/reluctance on the part of the public that held it back. It was primarily due to the pandemic, as well as incompetence on the part of the states in implementing and funding the programs to make it happen (and that's been resolved).
I'm not an advocate for Real ID or passports, but I'm not giving up the things that those things are going to be required for. If you live a simple, agorist life, you may be able to avoid Real ID and passports. I don't vote, so it's not like I can throw my voting support behind politicians that oppose Real ID (none of which are in my voting districts anyway).
Ironically, you don't need Real ID to vote; kind of confirms the premise that voting is less important than flying