Surely you must realize that the proposal was not pushed by consumers, but by industry, and that the quoted climate sinners that lost this fight is that industry. An industry, by the way, contributing to about 18 % of climate emissions, according to a UN report. As the article says, there are no European consumers that are confused as to what's in the products. No reasonable person ever bought a veggie burger and expected meat.

You take pride in writing code that is hard to understand? I think the dev community needs to move away from those kinds of patterns.

Beautiful code to me is code even my non coding customers can look at and understand roughly. Code is communication, not surreal art. I find that's a principle that helps myself whenever I revisit my old code base.

No, it started here:
"The rise in opioid consumption followed the liberalization of laws, governing the prescribing of opioids for pain treatment by the medical boards in the U.S. Clinicians were encouraged to be more proactive in identifying and treating chronic pain. In addition, in the late 1990s, the pharma industry started an aggressive marketing campaign that downplayed the risk of addiction and claimed that oxycodone could be safely prescribed in high doses. Indeed, following this campaign, oxycodone and other POs were much more frequently prescribed by physicians in the U.S. and Canada and oxycodone became a leading drug of abuse."
Source: The Misuse of Prescription Opioids: A Threat for Europe?

The Dunning-Kruger effect in action, possibly.