Moving around easily and not having to show your passport is often an argument for the advantages. In reality this is more or less completely insignificant, even if you do travel a lot. Some bureaucratic barriers changing nationalities aren't relevant in contrast to what the EU brings to the table.

Meanwhile, while people can vote for an inhibited parliament, it is far too removed from the average citizen that neither knows the people they are voting for, nor can they probably understand them.

VdL would have never been successful if people understood what she was saying or had said in the past. It is a democratic circus and a clear symptom.