I’m with you but it depends on the bagel and that’s probably the problem.
Many people only really have experience with like frozen/mass produced bagels, which are not good dry. Good toasted with cream cheese or butter, but not dry (speaking from intensely lazy experience).
But if you get one of the good ones that’s baked with cheese and is just soaked with delicious? Made by a good bakery? No question I’ll eat that dry. It doesn’t need extra if you make it right.
That’s exactly what this is about.
The 6 week ban was passed in 2019, and has basically been tied up in court, but because of the amendment to the state constitution, the law is unconstitutional, and those orgs are asking the state courts to declare it unconstitutional and remove it entirely.