Reading all kind of CBDC propaganda and those who are clearly against CBDC I absolutely can't get something real from that stuff.
Every single feature/option/whatever of CBDC could be implemented using current bank card/account system without single problem. Everything, from any restrictions to programming buying power or whatever. Every single thing that somehow connected to CBDC in everything written about it and posed as threat/advantage by whatever side is a question of a few minutes scripting in bank computers over current card/account system.
So, what is the real point of pushing CBDC crap by TPTB? Money laundering? Creatiing a base for some other narrative unknown yet, like kind of cyber threat fearmongering? What else? Anybody?
I think we have yet to see some of the angles but removing paper FIAT to make private transfers impossible is a part of the agenda. I suspect some form of UBI will be a motivation for accepting CBDC probably in the face of shortages. I suspect FIAT will crash while Crypto skyrockets garnering public interest in Crypto BUT there will be more Crypto failures. Will these be blockchain failures or more exchange failures or both? More Crypto scams as normies attempt to actually use it as currency? We will see. I think the CBDC will be slightly decentralized with existing legacy financial institutions acting as the nodes and as such the Government can encourage the financial institutions to infringe on citizens rights while appearing to keep their hands clean. I suspect we are going to see an uptick in card fraud and robberies in the short term causing the mindless masses to beg for the pre-made solution of CBDC as a knee jerk reaction. CBDC is happening, I know of a FED project manager working on it but I have yet to get a timeline. For a while I've been trying to view everything through the lens of biblical prophecy and CBDC seems to fit fairly well with "the mark" and not being able to buy or sell without it. There's a whole bunch of prophecy that is shaping up more and more by the day, I feel we are in Ezekiel 36 (and elsewhere in other books) with Israel being repopulated and zombies coming into play on the next page, isn't it going to be funny when the first resurrection happens and everyone defaults to Hollywood taught reactions instead of the biblical taught reaction in Isiah 26:20? Oh, and the pope's creepy snake audience hall is a reference to the last time Israel (God's people, now including Christians) was headed to Israel (the place), specifically Numbers 21:8.
I may not agree with you about theological significance of CBDC, but I appreciate idea that implementing CBDC needed for them for implementing biblical prophecy much more than weird assumption that "CBDC is necessary for them to ban cash".
So, we could add another possible explanation for CBDC - they need it for theological reasons, as a part of their relogious antichristian views.