> I just didn't want to deal with each country.

Yes, the EU is not a country. Each country has their own government, with regulations of their own.

I am in favor of some sort lf EU federalization for this reason, there's a lot of redundancy.

On the other hand, you could just choose a country to operate, which is a normal thing to do. There are things I could find, for example, in France that I cannot find in the country where I live