Maybe... Cirrus, and Socata and Mooney before them, have managed to sell a suprising number of IFR singles into Europe, in the vast majority of cases with no ice protection.
I think the salesman saying it is a tool for travelling is being less than honest. A tool for travelling needs 100% anti-ice and radar. Without these, your dispatch rate will be down to say 75% which is fine for "business travel" (as in meeting up with chums who you do business with) but is no good for real business travel (pre-scheduled customer visits).
And I say 75% even based on flying VMC on top enroute.
Interestingly, radar is a possibility in the Cobalt. Whether they will realise the value of it is another matter. But if they originally planned it as a jet, radar would have been a must.
European airways are empty of GA because too few pilots have an IR and too few airports have an IAP and most have limited opening hours; not because of lack of aircraft ice protection.
The other thing is more basic: is there really a market between the "SR22" level, and SE turboprops? A lot of salesmen think there isn't and that anybody with $700k can afford $2M. Together with the perceived need for pressurisation, and poor TP efficiency at low altitudes, this is why we see such a big gap between pistons and TPs.