maybe you live under a different government ... when face to face appointments were first cut back here, the health secretary of the day, well known funnyman Tony Hancock, announced this as the dawn of a new service where everybody would be zooming all day and nobody would have to waste a GP's time by seeing him/her. So GPs are doing their best to obey orders whether they agree with them or not.
This is apart from the personpower problems caused by retirements, overwork, underinvestment and so on. The present Health Secretary's plan is to name and shame GPs ... sorry, to "provide transparency" ... about failing to obey the latest orders, which appear to contradict previous ones.
I feel sure this will encourage more young people to take up general practice.