yeah I agree about that, gov apps pushed so hard are always suspicious. perhaps not now, but they will be used for things that are questionable at best. not just this government, but any government anywhere. but I thank god its not mandatory. like, I had some discussions with other lemmitors who live in some of the northern countries where there is no option to use standard time based codes for 2FA, the app is a hard requirement, avoiding it makes lots of different kinds of administrative tasks very time consuming, and if your phone is not google approved (rooted, or just installed a rootless clean rom like even grapheneos), it will outright refuse to work.