I had to go to the government office to get my car registered as legal to drive

the safety inspection was done at a private mechanic's shop, and they put everything into an online system. I already have my own license plates and the car transferred into my name from a previous government visit (which is required to get an update d physical copy of ownership). I have insurance on the car separately, obviously

and yet I need to go to an office in person so that I can just say "hi please register this vehicle?" even though literally all of the information required to do that already exists in their system or is being entered into their system after being transferred from a paper form (VIN, my name, date, insurance policy). it's nuts. like no part of the process required me to be there whatsoever. they don't look at the car or physical copies of anything but my ID