While I am all for making vote by mail the default rather than a series of hoops you have to hop through to qualify*:

People also need to make themselves much more aware of early in-person voting. It still is a hassle and it is not the be all end all, but people very much should be aware that counties tend to have multiple polling locations up for a month or two in advance where it might take you longer to follow the signage to that room than it does to actually vote.

*: A decade or so back I was out of the country for work during the late Fall. Like a good citizen, I contacted the county and state to figure things out. Because I was in country by a certain deadline, I couldn’t get my ballot mailed internationally. But, because I wasn’t in the US during the entire in-person voting period, I obviously couldn’t vote in person. After a month or so back and forth I was told to call someone who explained that they would mail my ballot to my “temporary address” in the US that just so happened to be a friend of mine and that they could totally forward it to me and I could totally mail it back to them. And then I just told a buddy what bubbles to fill in and drop it off for me.