I do understand that it is hard to feel the sentiment in Europe here if you’re not actually in Europe. Maybe a good comparison is to look how a lot of US based online services are responding to SESTA right now: some of them are even completely or partially closing down, just because they don’t know how to comply.
Well, GDPR is not causing that much panic, but people do want to be sure that they’re compliant. And as long as they’re not sure, they’re not even starting a forum.