There’s no technical reason for it, as the game has already worked fine without it for months

Well, sort of. Friend requests between PC and PS5 have been borked for a long time now, recently they changed how account ID’s are generated randomly to now looking like it’s a specific ID. I wouldn’t be surprised if linking accounts was part of this in a skeezy way.

The worst part is I have a PSN account but I haven’t had a console since the PS2 lol.