> Unless you ban EU citizens visiting your website and your website doesn't make business with other businesses in EU.

You can simply break the law and ignore the EU. The cookie popup sanctions are not criminal and unless you are very high profile business, nobody cares about you. Nobody is going to come after you.

The only regulator that international developers need to worry is the SEC from United States, because they pursue for US victims cross border. But the get on the bad side of the SEC you need to do something really stupid.