I think what they mean is that what EU in general kinda knows that for various they won't be able to make their version of money machine big tech. So why not to try different path? The individual laws will always be flawed because there is huge pressure to make them flawed by corps and lobby that want's to exploit them.

But if you ask anyone in europe on the street they have no sympathy for big tech. If anything they want stronger GDPR and more of it.