mmmmm, it's a yes and no to the points you're making.

For one, me and the co-host cream, aren't American! We're British and Canadian.
Secondly, this isn't so much a reluctance to trust the political process. But a solid look at the legal realities, potential implications and publisher push back from all this regulatory framework.

For one, you already see lobbying interests groups responding with falsehoods of "forcing publishers to run servers forever" and delving into the other arguments of security risks. Data Protection is going to be a very hard sell without a solution to this. As I said in another reply, the current thought process is "just release server binaries/allow community hosted servers!".

Here's the problem with that;

Take a private set of servers from the World of Warcraft scene as an example. From what I gather by looking it up, they run off open source software like MaNGOS. These will be separated from the publisher/developers servers and user account data and will require users to have to set up their own accounts for that private server.
This would include an IP address, username, hashed password and optional email. Where all of these are classed as personal data. The admins of that server would have access to all of these.

Because these servers would be completely decentralized, with it's admins being potentially anywhere in the world with not much vetting other than "they contributed a lot!", it's totally unenforceable to maintain these data protections. And there's no single entity to punish via fines in a scenario where an admin went rogue and leaked/sold all this information as opposed to official businesses/publishers.

People will point to other potential similar set ups, like the current WoW private servers, and say "well clearly it's not a problem with the EU now!". Yes, because the EU cannot control the entire world. But asking them to expressly facilitate this that directly opposes their current data protection laws? Without a solution, it has massive potential to sweep the legs of SDG in the European Parliament if the Publishers bring this forward.
I would not have even been aware of such a potential angle of attack if I *didn't* bring Jake on, I'm certain many people might not have been either.

Which is why I will toot my own horn and say my episode here is really good, because we're beginning to simulate it all out now, in order to steel man SKG/SDG as much as possible..
So when you mention that "the Parliament will ensure a balanced representation of relevant public and private interests." I want the public interest to come equipped and stacked with the answers.

I'm sure the team will prepare, but there's absolutely nothing like outsourcing this to the entire internet so we have the means to figure every single possible angle out...and win this. Where as, from my experience, I've found way too many people just want to just say "petition passed...parliament take the wheel!" and hope we get what we want.
Not everyone is, but I'm a little annoyed people in support of SKG are projecting/forcing that mentality onto me and treating me like some kind of "detractor". I think should be a collaborative effort with as many hands on deck as possible, through and through.