You are never going to get a more sensible system here, because a more sensible system is likely to resemble the FAA system, which is by definition not acceptable to the Eurocrats whose standard line is "we are Europeans; we must have European solutions, not American solutions".
It amazes me that anybody can come up with such garbage with a straight face, but they are evidently well practiced.
You would not say to a 5 year old "you cannot have that ice cream because I say so".
This is why everything gets bogged down in Europe.
I don't think Europe is particularly massive when you look at the size of its
non-CAT aviation scene, versus the non-CAT aviation scene in the rest of the world, and much of the latter runs on FAA paperwork one way or another. America (and American taxpayer) pretty well runs the known non-CAT aviation universe...