This is not how civilized society works. Taken individually, people don't care about a million things, yet regulators have to take care of those things on behalf of everybody else.
Just because you don't understand the ramifications of something it does not mean nobody else understands it.
When that happens, then we can talk about responsible governance in this regard. GDPR was a direct response to Trump campaign shenanigans, as a tool for politicians to capitalize on appearing to be better than US. It had nothing to do with protecting people. If GDPR outlawed 3d party tracking outright, then you would have half an argument.
I remember it being big news back in 2018, riding off the back of the CA scandal that it could help to prevent in the future.
Regardless, if I am wrong about this, it doesn't change the fact that it doesn't really do anything for the people.