So, no, it was not an unsolved issue: Just respond. The court case resolved the situation where a company didn't respond, but the request was potentially abusive. Nothing that and legitimate requests are both solved by simply responding.

It’s not clear to me which site “this” refers too.

> I think you're missing a few steps there.

I mean, yeah, I thought the format of the reply made it clear it was a joke. The larger point is that compliance isn’t that complicated and only becomes hard if you are invasive. When you’re not invasive it’s actually fairly simple.

> It would be nice if we lived in a world where legal compliance automatically conferred legal immunity.

It probably wouldn’t, because that would mean anyone violating the spirit of a law would be exempt from consequences by adhering to its letter.

I’d gladly make this same argument in court, though. But I’ll never have to, at least not as a defendant, because I respect users’ data (by not even collecting it), so there’s nothing to take me to court over.

It looks to be a distinctly US American idea that everyone is always suing everyone for everything and always going to court. That’s not how the rest of the world operates for the most part.