Finally yes yes yes.

I've wanted the option to select your cookie preferences once and forget in a brower for ever.

I assume the reason this wasn't done initially was corporate pressure (most people would opt-out of everything by default).

1.2 billion exposed users × 8.17 years×365×3 banners/day×4 seconds÷36 is roughly 10-15 billion human hours lost to dealing with damn cookies since GDPR took effect on May 2018.

That's about 17,000 human lives.