You ignore long stretches of history in which that command was a part of everyday life in many parts of the world: in both what is now the Muslim world and in Spain, the Balkans and Sicily during the periods when they were under Muslim rule, the Christian or Jew who paid his jizya and kept his head down was left alone until some Muslim, any Muslim, not necessarily one in authority, felt an imagined insult or wanted some of his property, at which point a trumped up charge was brought before a Muslim court, which invariably found against the non-Muslim, but typically offered conversion to Islam as an alternative to the death sentence pronounced. This was an everyday occurrence.
You make a good point but most folks I know would rather die than live under islam.
I’ve never seen any numbers on how many Christians and Jews hang around to pay the jizya after a muslim conquest, but I would bet that most would flee or die fighting.