I don't get the bottle cap hate meme. Is it useful? Probably no, but the amount of hate it gets is unexplainable by lack of concrete usefulness alone…

Also, the problem with GDPR is that it wanted to leave too much room for business to still collect an obscene amount of data, hence it allows the cookie banner. Please note that I emphasized “allow” because that's all GDPR does: it allows companies to use a cookie banner to extract the consent to collect data. It doesn't mandate it in any way.

None of my multiple websites have a cookie banner on them because I'm not trying to extract consent from my users to abuse their data, I just don't collect it and I'm effortlessly GDPR-compliant in the least obnoxious way.

Cookie banners are just malicious compliance.