This decision was needed because the EU was about to ban end-to-end encryption. It’s not the EU commission, but a judge that ruled. AFAIK Commission can still ignore this.
The bad guys here are the commission and some EU member states.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-00166...
https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the...