Hard when those sites are things like your bank, your government official stuff pages, etc.

This attestation stuff is a “not such a bad idea in its basic principle” thing that will actually absolutely get abused everywhere in every way including being used to kill off browser competitors, enhance monopoly positions, etc.

It needs to be stopped now.

The difference is that this is a “bloaty” webapp but is a very useful one that has actual practical value, in comparison to the typical poor modern “we made a tiny website into a massive slow JS heavy” webapp.

Genuinely, thank you for detailed comments like this. My partner is Chinese. She won’t talk about stuff like this but I know she’s experienced some of it, and seeing comments like yours helps me to understand it more.

You’re looking at it from a logical view,

The answer is pretty much that her partner is a minority that the state hates, so they want to punish that person and anyone who supports her,

And it’s just that. Perhaps they could escape, but I presume they both have family there, and then they may not be able to return, etc.