That links says that customers “are able to” not that “they must”. The website makes it sound that companies must sell a version without a charger, not they must sell only without a charger.
Why would Apple double the number of SKUs in European counties just to comply with this? Selling the charger separately is a more pragmatic choice that avoids unnecessarily complicating the product line to comply with these mounting EU regulations.
Yea that’s how regulations work. If the EU wanted both options then it should have specified that.