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The problem is that would be incredibly easy to bypass at multiple levels. You could set your age as >18 when configuring your device's account (they don't check ID) or modify the OS/browser/client-side webpage itself (the latter of which a simple browser extension could accomplish).
As we've seen, the current system is incredibly easy to bypass. There are plenty of ways to game or avoid the age checks.
The current implementation also uses multiple different age verification services, on a per-site basis. This proposed one reduces data exposure vulnerabilities to a fraction.