Websites could choose to not track you, to make tacking opt in and having opt out selected as default, could choose to follow do not track as rejecting cookies, they have multiple choices but chose to give you a worse user experience for their profit. I do not think it's fair to complain at Europeans for this, blame the websites
I agree it sucks - and they're not used on every eu website -, but at least it's the small rectangle that says "accept all" "accept essential only" and goes away quite swiftly. Most sites that ask you to click more times to selectr/reject manually are just malicious compliance
