My personal & subjective €0.02 as someone inside the Brussels machine is that non-Brit colleagues have v rapidly adjusted to the UK as a 3rd country in every respect, for good & ill. No special status as former member; no expectation or appetite for ‘re’join; but no bitterness or negativity either.

IMO your wording doesn’t quite capture it. Lots of us *want* to rejoin, though we understand it can’t, and won’t, happen soon. Lots of us are resentful, even bitter, towards those who did this to us, though not towards the EU.

I get the feeling that over here there are a few people for whom that last bit after the semicolon will be the hardest to bear.

It’s quite striking, really, how little impact Brexit made (on the non-Brits of course - we Brits remain traumatised and obsessed). For pretty much everyone else, once it became clear that the UK’s internal disaster would not infect others (rather it inoculated them), it ceased to occupy head space.

Refreshing to hear.