General Discussion

Nothing which requires a documentation trail from birth to the present, tracing every name change, through multiple state entities, is going to be easy to obtain, regardless of whether the card is free.

Way too many hurdles to obtaining the necessary documentation, especially for people who have changed their names one or more times (women, trans individuals), or individuals whose births were never formally recorded (older, minority) - and in some cases were actively discouraged from being recorded, and whose secondary documents (often held in churches) were destroyed - often in racially motivated attacks, or for people are housing insecure and can't always carry everything with them when they get bounced from one place to another.