Not necessarily. Many are told by their bosses to either put minimal effort into becoming compliant, or worse, told to use a horrid cookie notice service that creates so much user frustration that some of us abandon the site rather than deal with it.

I think with few exceptions, most web admins just want to get the cookie notice sh*t out of the way and get on with work that matters.

The “told to implement a horrid solution” is the malicious compliance.