Then those people are fools who would gladly let in the wolves just to stop them from banging on the front door. The correct response to cookie banners should be to ask why companies are so willing to ruin the user experience in order to be able to track data of even just those users who accept the banner (willingly or not).

The EU's own government websites are also littered with the cookie banners.

Even they can't help themselves thirsting for users data at the expense of ruining their websites.