You know it's funny; when 2FA first came out, I though "Oh, ok, I guess that makes sense." It was largely voluntary at first, passwords were easy to brute-force or social engineer (especially MOST people's passwords), and it seemed like a reasonable option for highly important things like bank accounts. 

Now, with everything going on, it's clear, like all the rest, that it's just about control. 2FA is laughable when it comes to "security", you can just social engineer your way around it like anything else, and many groups do (to say nothing of all the games you can play with sim cards). But that was never the point. The point was to lock everything down, make everyone identifiable, trackable, etc. And they've done a wonderful job! Basically every major service on the net now requires you to hand over your phone number, which is effectively an ID. Email, youtube, social media, discord, on and on. For "security". Sure.

Remember AIM? Yahoo messenger? Remember when you could just talk to people without the government demanding a vial of your blood and hair samples? Same with forced age check IDs, same with OSes now requiring TPM on the motherboard, Android locking out all apps unless their devs come scraping, begging Google for permission to exist. It's become clear that ownership and anonymity, even the slightest little bit of privacy, are going to be totally unacceptable in the new world that's being built. You don't own your phone, your computer, your car, your tractor. Big corpos do. You draw breath only by their grace, and only with their permission, which can be revoked instantly, without warning or reason.