Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification

I wonder if this would give Epic cause against Google?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple

If Google controls verification, then Google - not Epic - controls who can distribute Android apps on the Epic store.

That case is why I don't think Google will actually roll this out in the US (and the EU for different reasons).

But I was wrong about them even ever attempting something like this so who knows.