"This law should fail because people who want this law to fail are complying maliciously" is one of the more out-there readings of reality I have seen in some time.
Perhaps, rather than shrugging one's shoulders and saying "well, to hell with you, I've got mine," there are other things we as a functioning society can do. Like standardize how these cookie prompts must be displayed (small, inobtrusive) and standardize a set of accepted behaviors when the user ignores or closes it (reject all non-required).
People can be complying maliciously and the law can be bad at the same time. I doubt most people actually thinks the EU struck a good balancing with the current laws.
Perhaps, rather than shrugging one's shoulders and saying "well, to hell with you, I've got mine," there are other things we as a functioning society can do. Like standardize how these cookie prompts must be displayed (small, inobtrusive) and standardize a set of accepted behaviors when the user ignores or closes it (reject all non-required).