@aires no. It's not. You just run two plates through the stamper, or the printer if your state is being a cheapskate.
And because of states like Illinois, most every car has a bracket designed for it meant to hold a front plate.
Designers who don't account for that are just being lazy and/or deliberately want to make the integration clunky because they're on team "front plates are gross."
Meanwhile, to me, cars without them look wrong. I'm so used to it it's not even a thing I think about.
@TechConnectify my new car came with a lovely molded bracket that clips into the grill and looks like a unified OEM part. It costs $167. But it’s better than drilling two holes into the bumper like my last car.
@TechConnectify The thing that really bothers me about NC's plate arrangement (rear only) is that dump trucks are allowed to put them just on the front.
There are so many bad and dangerous truck drivers near construction sites and highways that hearing about the ones that got away without identification is all too common. Even with dashcam footage of an unsecured load causing damage, there's not much that can be done if you don't at least see the side of the vehicle to catch the company.