But it isn’t compliant with Directive 2009/136/EC (which is the directive that created all those cookie banners to begin with), in the sense that it still allow

But it isn’t compliant with Directive 2009/136/EC (which is the directive that created all those cookie banners to begin with), in the sense that it still allows for implementation of cookies that aren’t “strictly necessary”. Meaning even if all browsers implemented cookies strictly according to that spec, all of the distinctions that directive makes between different types of cookies would still be valid, and we’d still have the same amount of cookie dialogs.