Afaik, Macron is relatively highly regarded in Europe

Is he ? I might be biased by french media, but I don’t feel like he is highly regarded by foreign politicians. Liberal media like him because he is one of the last few good looking and good sounding proponents of their ideas.

No, they are the system, and the system is held together by the law.

technology is still advancing

Actually not really: performance per watt of the high end stuff has been stagnating since Ampere generation. NVidia hides it by changing models in its benchmarks or advertising raw performance without power figures.

They already suffered from his shitty actions, he did not become a terrible person overnight.