Ugh, you're absolutely right and I can't speak enough about how much this annoys me. I run up against issues caused by well-intentioned "get your location from your IP" lookups at least once a week.

Completely ignoring the aspect of VPNs (which is huge), I've also been fighting this mentality for the past few months trying to prove to Coinbase that I'm a US citizen with my US bank account (however I signed up from an IP in Croatia!), and being completely unable to do mundane tasks like browsing/editing my Google Photos photobooks since I wasn't on a USA IP.

Can we please, please, please stop tying IPs to location? It's obnoxious to have to set up proxies just to prove I am who (or where) I say I am.