I think more than one factor has been at work on this EASA stuff.
Firstly only the saddest anoraks read the EASA docs. Personally I lose interest after the first page and then I just speed-read, which I think most normal people do and is exactly what EASA hopes for. If I was running EASA that is what I would be doing: writing thousands of pages of bull***t. I am getting paid for it by the EU, after all. Wonderful stuff, which won't be repeated in my lifetime. So a lot of people have been ignoring this whole thing because they cannot get their head around what it means, or what it might mean.
Secondly there is a lot of apathy among pilots, especially UK ones.
This FCL stuff is not a done deal yet and won't be for quite a while. It needs wide publicity, especially at the top political level and especially abroad, especially in the USA where the Airbus tanker contract stuff is hitting the fan as I speak. A single tanker is worth 1000x more than the entire FCL proposal, and don't forget that Airbus = France = EASA = EU (de facto). 1 phone call is all it takes to squash this whole thing. It's called political reality.
Any publicity is worth doing.