Users are frustrated by the need to download large apps, create accounts, verify emails, and add credit cards just to pay for parking. They desire a faster, more private method that allows them to pay and leave without forming a 'relationship' with the parking company.
I pull into a parking spot and the meter is gone. Just a QR code. It wants me to download a 50mb app, create an account verify my email. and THEN add a credit card just to pay the parking fee which takes longer than needed. I keep my VPN on a lot more now just because scanning a random QR code on a pole feels sketchy as hell. Corporations are forcing people to trade their digital privacy for the most basic physical interactions. I don't want a relationship with the parking company. I don't want your newsletter. I just want to give you money and leave.