It was really, really bad if you were in tech or finance. Like, I worked for a few companies (I live in Ireland) who had moved their roles from the UK to Irela

It was really, really bad if you were in tech or finance. Like, I worked for a few companies (I live in Ireland) who had moved their roles from the UK to Ireland because of it. More generally, it's just made life much harder for UK exporters, as they now have way more customs declarations and tariffs on both sides. The big thing for me (and lots of Irish people) was that we now avoid ordering from UK sites as it's likely to take longer and cost more. Overall, it's been bad and kneecapping your productive industries on the promise (not fulfilled) of reducing immigration seems to be a bad idea. That being said, the UK is still there, still a big market so it's more that they get less investment from multinationals than they otherwise would have, and their companies face much higher barriers to export. And the worst part was that the EU introduced checks on agriculture immediately, while the UK didn't which basically meant that EU farmers were much more competitive in the UK than UK farmers could be outside it. To be clear, Brexit could have been managed much better, but it was a bad idea executed poorly.