No they aren't. Government regulation mandating a specific engineering decision is the opposite of "perfectly free".
The EU just said, "You know how half of humanity are idiots and half of the rest couldn't survive a day without TikTok? Now you need to let them open up your carefully engineered product designed to all the exacting customer requirements you had to meet to be competitive, let them **** with it, and hope they put it back together ok. Then you need to take the blame when they get it wrong."
I'm telling you, 2028 will be the year of YouTube videos about how the latest phones, tablets, laptops, headphones, and watches suck. Companies will abide by the law, but they are absolutely not free to implement their own e-waste reduction strategies, and the planet will suffer for it.