I think he is prepping everyone for the next phase of X. Remember - X is supposed to be the "everything app". There was talk about X being used as a payment app along with other stuff. Think PayPal or Google Pay or Zelle. If he gets all the dopes that want a blue check to submit ID then when he does the payment part he will say "look - all those people did it already and nothing happened".

He learned a lot about payment apps when they were creating paypal originally. I recall something about paying people $10 to open accounts and people figured out how to cheat that to get more. No way he does a payment app without requiring ID.