Like which ones? I can't see the comments you're referring to.

Look at johannes1234321 comment below.

The UK isn't technically in Europe any more (except geographically), but there are no city or state (county) level photo IDs here. Everything is national and managed by the central government.

It's in Europe the same way it has always been. UK is no longer in the EU

And even within the EU I’d still wager that there are many different systems in different countries. Almost like it’s a block of diverse individual nations and not just a single entity that you can make lazy comparisons with.

Its all centrally forced, the security, the implementation. They are printed the same place, same way, a lot of directives straight from Brussels.

And the passports have photos, right?