Organize and fight the policy. Do not take your frustration out on people and companies that just try to adjust to a law. Talk to your representatives. Create educational websites similar to fightchatcontrol.eu.
At least in the US check out the 2014 Princeton study on citizen preferences. Our Democracy is a sham, those mechanisms don’t actually have any power to change anything.
But this is actually a really good policy? It just says every OS shall have a UI to turn parental controls on or off, and an API to check if they're turned on. That's a good thing. It satisfies the reasons people wanted age verification, without actually doing age verification.