Well, it's basically malicious compliance. They're supposed to be super annoying because the people which need them do things which have been deemed unacceptable from the legislature. Instead of complying, they choose this obnoxious practice so they could continue with what they've been doing for years, which is monitoring every action a visitor does.
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You don't need a cookie banner to be allowed to create Cookies. You only need them if you're using them for something like tracking.
A session cookie, selected theme etc is all fine without that banner