> It's about covering their arse before reopening Fable 5

This help page has been there for a long time. Long before Fable was announced.

Their ID process isn’t new.

They might use it in the future to gate access to Fable if they can conclude that it’s sufficient to comply with the regulation, but the fact that they had this process in place already and they’re not using it for the Fable situation suggests there’s more to it.