I'm in the German energy industry. It's a farce of epic proportions and has been for a very, very long time.

How is the sentiment in that industry? Defeated and trying to comply somehow or are there efforts made to fight this?

Defeated and trying to comply. Also, Germans tend to fall in line with whatever authority says and pretend they know best when they have no clue. Lots of die hard greens of course in renewables. Mostly, behind closed doors, everyone knows getting out of nuclear was the biggest fail this side of 1990.

That is unfortunate. So it has to get much worse first

Bingo. Blackouts before enough people realise the greens are psychopaths.