It failed miserably at that, too. Apart from Plausible there's hardly any business worth mentioning that used GDPR as a competitive advantage. GDPR for the most part has been a stimulus program for lawyers and government busybodies.

That's just a perspective from reality, where people are doing business rather than contriving impractical regulations out of thin air .

> GDPR is not that bad. It has downsides but it is not overly complex.

It might seem simple to consumers or politicians who claim they could implement it in a day, but it is highly complex once you have to implement it as a small or medium-sized business.

> Companies (including cloud services) have to comply if they want to have business in Europe

Large corporations - i.e. the supposed target of that regulation - scoff at GDPR. They have legal departments and the funds necessary to deal with GDPR however they see fit, while small and medium-sized business bear the brunt.