There are pretty easy examples of decreasing regulations, both in the US and in Europe. The US is particularly easy to come up with examples: the supreme court has banished many regulations, reverting to more laissez faire states, whether related to gun control, campaign finances, TV broadcast rules, rules on marriage, the scope of CDC's or EPA's power, etc. The tax system gets simplified every few decades, after it accumulates cruft.

Regulations are removed all the time in the US (see the repeal of Glass-Steagall act as a recent, prominent example)

Government regulations today, at least in the U.S. and the UK, are a fraction of what they used to be in the post WW 20th century.

Government regulations have been getting weaker pretty much my entire living memory.

Yes, it’s overwrought.

The vast majority of these restrictions are not slippery slopes. In fact, slippery slope arguments are themselves a category of logical fallacy.

I understand that many people are driven by fear and emotions, but you should get ahold of yourself and stop supporting irrational hysteria.

Government regulation is constantly decreased. Weed is now legal in most US states for recreational use (I think; at any rate, many of them). The recent US Supreme Court Chevron decision will, for better or worse, probably lead to significant deregulation.