The traditional solution of the US government to prevent this was to make you pay thousands of dollars to do it. So much that Germany, which normally doesn't allow dual citizenship, would make an exception on the basis that it was financially impossible for low earners.

They've now come up with an even better solution, which is to force you to go to an in person appointment, but also to ban you from doing so due to covid. Problem solved!

Yeah this is an option. There is a fee and and exit tax audit. But I travel to the US frequently for visiting family and business and I worry renouncing would lead to border crossing troubles. Im not living outside the US because Im anti US. It’s just where my career took me and then I met my spouse, bought a house, had kids, etc. I don’t want to give up the citizenship of my birth country. So I will complain about the draconian US tax laws but I will probably just endure them for the rest of my life.

Google "US Exit Tax" if you want to find out just how much the US hates people who expatriate.