@Telstra I activated my eSim via QR code, it showed no service for a week, then I contacted Telstra by web chat and was told to go to a Telstra store, then the Telstra store told me all eSim activations were failing and offered me no help at all.
I know this is dumb/basic/very foreigner of me, but whenever we do long drives in the US I get more convinced a big reason so many Americans are skeptical of global environmental issues etc is that so much of the US is like, endless stretches of lush barely-developed woodland