If it's that easy to not need the banners, I'd expect EU websites themselves to lead the "no cookies needed" movement.

Yet https://european-union.europa.eu displays a cookie banner for tracking on what is essentially a static informational site. If the EU itself feels tracking is valuable enough to warrant the banner on their own pages, it's hard to fault businesses (whose survival actually depends on understanding their audience) for making the same choice.

At least they're compliant with their own regulation, I suppose.