In the USA it is totally accepted that VFR can request flight following directly to ATC but they are not allowed to make self announcements on the same frequencies.
You say this is " completely incoherent ". Maybe to you but it is a fact.
I didn't say that the US system is completely incoherent. I said some of your arguments are completely incoherent. There's a difference.
It's like your assertion that 90% of VFR pilots are "defying" the "CASA ruling". I think you'll find that the ones operating out of unmarked, uncertified, unlicensed strips and cattle properties in the middle of nowhere might actually realise that there are no mandatory calls there.