Driving licences have been abolished. You may not have noticed.
Secure printing is on its way to being one of the casualties of the digital revolution. It hasn’t yet gone away of course, with bank notes remaining its apotheosis. There is a reason for that complexity and the costs which go with it, which is that fundamentally bank notes are self-authorising.
That used to be true for lots of other things as well, some of them quite banal.