The "no direct funding failures" finding from one review is a narrow feedback loop that can't possibly capture the full impact of a complex system like the AI Act.
Regulatory viability is a question of second-order effects and systemic shifts, not just the absence of immediate collapses, much like how one good grade doesn't mean a student has mastered the entire curriculum.
It overlooks the bottlenecks created for smaller startups who might pivot or never even launch due to perceived compliance costs, and how that shapes the entire innovation regime.
Assuming this single data point heavily influenced a debate about overall viability shows a misunderstanding of how complex systems actually operate and interact.