I guess you have to start somewhere, but I get what you are saying.
I love using straws. I have switched to paper straws at home though except for my tall cup which has washable thick plastic straws that came with tiny straw brushes to use to keep them clean. I was aghast seeing the videos on the humongous floating islands of plastics in the sea. When I see something crazy like that, I'm always wanting to say "I know we have to put trash somewhere, but who decided it was ok to dump in the ocean???" When the problem began, it should have been stopped and a better way figured out, either stop the manufacturing of the plastics or find another solution to discarding them. Ugh !
I haven't eaten with any wooden utensils yet. When I was working away from home though, I bought a set, knife, fork & spoon of real stainless utensils, but it was child size. Not infant mind you, but shorter than the regular adult size. I had them in a plastic container that I kept at work, so I didn't need to use a plastic fork or spork. I guess it might be a good idea to find something like that to keep in the car for future carry-outs. Wooden utensils.... Ugh!
I don't know the answer to all the things, but I know we can do better.
Indeed, they should start with the most damaging issues though, rather than taking the focus away from them in a smike-and-mirrors style distraction that is straws.
I keep two sets of stainless cutlery in all of my vehicles (little kits that include chopsticks) and have done so for a long time, for convenience and now also to avoid the wooden splinter-cutlery they provide now. Seems to work well.
As for plastics, most is not recyclable (even if it has the recycle logo) and some deep dive googling will demonstrate that. It ends up in landfill. Remember that post I did a out the oceans and another on general recycling which called out Amazon for ditching brand new (unsold) televisions into landfill because it was cheaper than recycling...well, that's where they should be focused, not on straws. There's hundreds of other examples. There's a load of stuff they could be doing but they do not because it restricts revenue...better to make the masses change their habits huh? The dual benefit us that the focus comes off the main offenders right at the top. Assholes.