The EU has been a massive force of good for consumer rights
As a programmer maybe we weren't meant to just be able to have a "thirst" to store "everything and everyone's" data forever. Just implement the GDPR deletion and the data export batch.
Or the Cybersecurity Act increasing liability for selling software complete with a box-ticking exercise to force money into consultants?
Or the DSA creating loads of bureaucracy for "algorithmic" content when almost everything is an algorithm?
The US is restricting nvidias ability to ship GPU's because they're worried about AI. At least the EU's stance is: open, voted on and clear.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/us-govt-restricts-shipment...
Have a privacy policy, don't collect unnecessary user data, encrypt data properly, don't use cookies to track people outside what is needed for your website to function, and allow your users to access and delete their data. You should have already done that before GDPR, and if you did not, you're the reason we need the law.