Hate this way of thinking where the government (with seemingly good intentions) tries to stop something but leaves a loophole where all our lives are made more tedious and then people defend it saying the companies should just not do it, well we needed the law in the first place so it's a bit silly thinking to suggest they stop doing it after the law, no?.
If the cookie law was written properly then it would have just been a browser setting that had to be respected and this whole thing would have been completely transparent to the end user and they would have benefitted by default.
Instead through incompetent government employees we now have cookie banners for the rest of eternity on almost every site and they're not even standardized so worst sites like where journalists publish can have more and more obtuse ones.