but every time I visit a new website, or a frequently visited site with cleared cookies, I think of the European Commission when I have to click the "Accept Cookies" message. It is stupid, it is so prevalent that it creates a bad customer experience nearly everywhere on the internet.

Well, now it might have had an impact on the global IT outage from last Friday. This shouldn't absolve Microsoft and CrowdStrike. But we do need to understand the impacts of requirements that the regulatory industries have on our most used tools.