They are easier to click now, first sites with cookie wall setups were often bad pattern, hard to disagree with non essential cookies and so on, they basically forced you or tried to trick you into accepting all cookies, essential, marketing, social and what not. Now you see more sites that have default setting to only allow essential.

But regulator obviously didn't know how cookies work, what they are good for, what they are bad for and whatever they try to outlaw now gets correlated via different means. User-agent, ip and some other browser fingerprinting.

So bottomline, we have to click once more (or every time, when private/incognito mode) when you visit a site.