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On the developer side I see the opposite: End users that are complaining can now deal with problem themselves without having to pester (or even find) the developer.

Anything that amounts to less pestering of developers is (probably) a good thing

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I'm unsure of how the burden of proof would work if the developer is not involved. The end user may have a hard time even guessing whether a piece of GPL software is embedded in the defendant's software.

Someone with enough knowledge to provide the proof would still need to be involved, but it doesn't have to be the original developer(s).

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