Lots of crying in the comments over an EU mandate which says in its opening pages that the limiter must be able to be disabled by the driver. If you don’t like it, just turn it off.
Lots of things start optional before becoming mandates.
The slippery slope is real.
Lots of "optional" things one would have to explicitly disable these days. It's never a persistent setting either. You are universally forced to turn these things off every time you get into the car and start it.
If you force people to manually turn it off every time you start the car (which is what the article states), it’s essentially mandatory. It wears people down to do so and they’ll just give up and accept the feature at some point. It’s an illusion of choice.
There’s no sign that you’ll be able to turn it off in the car ahead of you, though.