How much incompetence do we accept or tolerate, before we deem it negligence? If someone adds a consent popup or similar thing to a website, usually knowing, that there is a reason why this must be done, and that this reason is GDPR, it seems quite incompetent to not know the first bit about what is required, and not doing their due diligence to read up on it when not one doesn't know.

Perhaps it would change things for the better, if this special kind of people were at least temporarily removed from the job, until they have gained basic knowledge about their job and how it affects other people.