Blocking cookies should be done by users via software.

This is only going to make the barrier to entry higher and more expensive.

I have no idea what many small non tech businesses would do? Pay a few thousand every year when standards change?

That's the point. We want the barrier to entry in widespread tracking to be high.

For what it's worth, you don't need cookie consent warnings if you use them only for functionality integral to the product you offer your user. For example, if you need to use a cookie to facilitate a logged-in user session, you don't need to warn them.

The only ones paying the high price is the people who use it to collect user information not essential to the service they provide to the user, for god knows what.

That’s what is done.

The government doesn’t block cookies for you, they set the rules with user data, and the actors (service providers and users) act accordingly.

That’s how things should be.

I don’t want the governments to build or design software, I want them to set the rules and let browser developers and other actors react accordingly. If the reaction isn’t judged well intended or good enough, they are sanctioned accordingly.