The way I expect this to go down is that Android/iOS/etc. will roll out an age bracket API call in the near future and tie that API call to some set of foundational permissions (e.g. internet access / file access / etc) - they have done this in the past, notably for API deprecation.
A minimally invasive implementation of this will likely only restrict apps running if the OS itself is being run in a kids-mode .
(But that isn't what the laws actually require)
It's a very, very short jump from "the law requires you to call this API to know a users age" to "the law requires you to call this API to backdoor the rng"
The precedent of the former makes me very uneasy.
I cannot in good conscious support software on any platform subject to a jurisdiction that mandates such calls.
(I also think making the existence of parental controls settings on an OS as mandatory is also a little iffy, but in a less catastrophic way)
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