If I can’t do things with my physical ID that my digital ID allows me to do, then that means the government lied on them being equivalent to one another.
If I was an Austrian teacher, I would expect to be able to use my physical ID for work. The process may be a little slower, but I should be able to do it.
Just because different companies may have been contracted to create the IDs doesn’t change the fact that they are both government issued documents. Same if they are delivered by different departments.
There’s no doubt that you know more than I do on how they work and how they are implemented. I am just saying that on principle, if any government says that digital ID is not mandatory but then prevent people who don’t want to opt in to from working, then the government lied.
Increasingly, there are a lot of places that don’t accept cash, when it should be accepted everywhere when it’s in reasonable amounts. To me, this is the same form of discrimination.