iirc it’s all because of legislation that all 3 telcos have to adhere to so they’ll all do the same shit, also Telstra uses a shitty proprietary voip implementation so things like lineageos might not work
This is true, but the way the telcos have been implementing it is different (even if the specifics of that remain unclear).
I expect some blacklisted devices will become whitelisted in the future on the various networks (and vice-versa). The whole thing has been poorly communicated and rather opaque.