Did he realize that WorldCoin's plan is to have an expiry with each instance of your identity, forcing people to re-scan at some regular periodicity?

ie, there is already a planned, in-your-face, government hook, where the rules can change, to link this shit to any other document/system. So if you don't get re-scanned, you "expire" by default. The default will be to be de-platformed for non-compliance.

I wonder if the employees even know how evil and inconvenient this shit could get.

I've never been a violent person, but I'm considering it.

I'm putting Sam Altman into a bin of "most evil and reckless people on earth".