You literally said it was “worse” that they’re willing to pay, but not more, for a local version?? That is a judgement call you made about the people’s answer, those fabulous 33%, [..]

Correct. Making the leap from "free" to "paid" is a big one, mentally. A stance of "I would like an EU service, but not enough to go through the hassle of actually setting up a paid tier of service" is a lot easier to understand than "I already pay the Yanks, and would like an EU service, but I just don't wanna spend any additional money.

weirdos who “can’t be bothered enough to be willing to pay for it.”

Ah, no, not "can't be bothered" - "they’re not bothered enough". They are bothered, as in, it upsets them that the service is foreign, but not enough to get them to do something about it. And I'm not saying they should pay more. I just think it's funny that they aren't willing to, especially what's explicitly a "nominal surcharge". Kinda how when everyone says they want to eat healthy, and then keep eating pizza.

100% of the people they asked are paying something, they’re all using the EU’s services, which is currently not deGAAFed enough.

Aaah, you're talking about paying taxes for government services. Now you're making sense.