FWIW, from what I can tell, California's Digital Age Assurance Act doesn't actually require age *verification* per se. Merely accepting a user's self-reported age is sufficient. So yes, it's an even dumber law than it sounds.
Yeah, liquid feels like a stop-gap solution until it's inevitably obsoleted by a better alternative; but, it's working for me so far vs the trade-offs that other currently available solutions offer.