[athenot]

Think of it in terms of infosec: in a similar way, one could complain that having to sanitize secrets from RAM is harmful to performance (why can't we cache the result of decryption)… Yes it's an overhead but at the end of the day, we build technology to serve human goals, not the other way around.

(To be pedantic, we build technology to serve business goals, which are fulfilled within the larger context of serving human goals. Laws like these are to prevent shortcuts that would serve business goals while at the same time be detrimental to human goals.)