It made it painfully clear to the public opinion how much society relies on gas.

Unfortunately the general public doesn’t understand long term reasoning: nor climate change, nor energy independence. If it doesn’t happen right now, it’s ignored by most people. The high spike in price worked really well to open a debate to support more renewables or nuclear power.

Consider that even now, after all that happened, the EU has a noisy minority trying to shoot down alternatives to gas.