Not that it matters very much at all, manufacturers already don't meet existing standards and just pay the fine each year
Fear not. They have already removed the fines.
https://headlight.news/2025/07/17
This change is just to make it harder to unfuck things if they fail at some of their goals and there's another election.
Looks like 8.8.1 was May 2025 https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v881-we-are-with-ukraine/
8.8.2 was June 2025 and has a warning to ignore "false positives" of malware in the update.... Ouch. https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/8.8.2-available-in-1-week-without-certificate/