yeah, it will mean that if the service has KYC they will refuse to serve EU unless they are prepared for the compliance costs

as for EU chasing relays, catch me if you can lol

i'll just get a VPS in kazakhstan or mongolia or something and tunnel that to where i actually run it from

plus, the EU can't stop europeans accessing IP addresses outside of their juris my diction anyway, so, just host/inbound it from elsewhere, they are only cutting off their nose to spite their face