Very unlikely this will cause anybody to be fired. Will not probably even lead to company fines, nor the disappearance of the illegal dark patterns. E.g. a lot of sites used the IAB nag that was found illegal by the regulators. But IIUC only IAB had to pay a small fine and I'm quite sure nobody got fired for it because it was the "industry standard".

NOYB is fighting the good fight, and without it GDPR would be even more useless. But it's a losing battle, and NYOB itself is sort of admitting that. https://noyb.eu/en/statement-4-years-gdpr

GDPR is in theory a good law (although things like mandatory honoring of do-not-track headers should have been obviously included). But it's not being enforced almost at all probably due to regulatory agencies and EU being corrupt AF.

Having a lot of money, lobbyists and lawyers makes you immune to the law.