John Gruber recently asked what the point of the DMA is, then answered himself two days later with the POSIWID framework (Purpose Of a System Is What It Does) from British management consultant Stafford Beer. The definition:
There is no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.
Beer argues that we should stop describing systems by what they claim to do, because what they actually do is the only thing that counts. And honestly, as someone who once hoped the DMA would achieve something good for European users, I have long since lost that hope.
The latest Apple settlement, which the EC celebrated, makes that unmistakably clear. None of this is a win for Europe.