That's not selling out. They explain that it's to combat abuse and that this was not their first choice.
By all means move to a different registrar, but deliberate honestly. They are not requiring ID/face scans for the same reason Discord and Roblox are, as your framing suggests.
In Qubes you use VMs to separate your banking environment from the one where you pull npm dependencies and the one where you open untrusted PDFs.
Networking also happens in its own VM, and you can have multiple VMs dedicated to networking.
Much lower memory footprint running mirage firewall, and an attack surface orders of magnitude smaller (compared to a VM running a Linux distribution purely for networking).
Did you get a genuine key? I never had one fail on me.
The immobilizer is the single best piece of technology for preventing car theft. If you create a backdoor for bypassing it, you'll end up like Hyundai/Kia which decided to sell cars without the immobilizer in recent years and which have turned into a joke in the minds of potential customers.
It does not require a battery in most cases and is separate from the keeloq system that controls your car's doors.
Organic garlic never talked up a partnership with <society-scale nasty characters>.