Proving a certain map on the closed unit disc must be the identity

Solution 1:

As pointed out in the comments on the MO question, this follows immediately from a 1931 theorem of M.H.A. Newman, which is Theorem 2 in this paper. Notice that Theorem 2 is basically a lemma (used to prove the main theorem 1) whose proof takes two pages, and uses nothing other than definition of manifold.