You’re not overlooking anything. You hit the nail on the head, these laws are about surveillance and censorship and that’s why they’re being implemented in the worst and least privacy respecting way possible. The next step is to make sure it’s impossible to circumvent by enforcing locked bootloaders and secure boot. Phones are 90% of the way there already and it probably wouldn’t be too hard for them to fuck up the desktop/laptop side of things either.