Something people might not be aware is that this type of stuff is only going to become increasingly more frequent with time. Safety regulations are being forced on social media at an increasing rate, and this includes Discord. It's not really as black and white as people seem to believe. But inconvenience is a valid point in my opinion.
I personally use Discord quite a lot and I think it's great for all sorts of things. But at the same time, there's literally 100s if not 1000s of public servers with NSFW content or dating servers (I genuinely don't know why people use Discord as Tinder, but it's shockingly common lol) + the number of minors that are using the platform is increasing.
I would argue that it's better to allow NSFW content for people that enjoy it by asking for age verification rather than flat-out ban it like so many other mainstream platforms did.
Privacy concerns are also valid, but in reality - privacy on internet is already quite minimal. You'd probably be shocked to see just how much of your data has already been legally acquired of the past few years, let alone illegally. Huge majority of websites you visit will collect some data from you.
But back to the age-verification issue: they'll most likely ask for some kind of ID, and a lot of people are not comfortable with sharing that (which is fine). Chances are that you won't really have to actually share anything because people will find a workaround anyways, it's just a matter of time. It'll likely happen extremely fast too, with the AI allowing you to essentially fabricate literally everything. Or just use the good old Photoshop.
Bottom line: this isn't some insurmountable issue, and you'll probably have like 50 video tutorials on YouTube - showing you a workaround for this problem within the first week
does your town have a pay phone? mine removed the last one few years back sadly. 
