Thought it might be illustrative to show what “you’re missing” by NOT having your AppleID balance displayed on a virtual wallet card.
(In short: Not much)
These two screenshots — captured from an actual “live” AppleID wallet — display ALL that one can do.
Note that there’s not ANY way to “spend.”
It DOES allow you to more conveniently add to your AppleID balance using other payment cards already in your wallet.
It also provides a marginally more convenient means to monitor one’s AppleID balance AND to redeem gift cards onto your AppleID balance. (i.e. w/o needing to “drill-down” into Settings)
It also provides a transaction summary register; although the transactions include no detailed itemization to indicate what was purchased.
In summary, not having this “capability” probably isn’t something which should trigger most individual’s FOMO anxieties.

