With due respect, you are very much out of touch. Few businesses employ full-time lawyers. Think about the businesses you interact with in your personal, daily life. Shops, restaurants, handymen, doctors, … Which of those do you think have a lawyer on the staff? Large chains will have entire legal departments, but not your ordinary small business. That’s how such regulations favor the big incumbents, as has been pointed out.
How many lemmy instances are run by lawyers, do you think?
All that costs a lot of money. Contrary to what you might expect, many businesses will think that’s splendid. The customer pays and not the business. If a business is good at navigating regulations, then the extra cost becomes a competitive advantage. It’s just the customer who’s stuck with the enshittification.
Hard to say what the future holds. But one thing is certain. The French like their language and culture. AI - as it is now - multiplies cultural output. That output won’t be much in the French language or influenced by their cultural traditions.