It's a balance thing.
12 other countries in the EU have also applied for and been granted permissions to use the neocotinoids. All with oversight, all with restrictions.
If the belief that cane sugar is less damaging to the environment, and the people who labour to produce it, then it's a very blinkered view.
All modern agriculture, all monoculture, has issues.
I happily signed the protests to have the neocotinoids banned, but there is, as yet, nothing else to take the place, and the British crop lost 25% because of a fungus spread by aphids.
We need more things that eat aphids, but then, what eats them ?
Agriculture sustains us, but it upsets the 'natural' order to an enormous degree.
Buy local, try to influence best practice. Not much else we can do apart from starve.
I buy British sugar if at all possible. There are no insecticide residues within it. The beets are so processed that only the 'sugar' is left. They even make use of the debris, etc.,
They are now producing more sugar on 90,000 less acres than previously. Efficiency and sustainability are very much to the fore.
I think if they have applied for this licence, then it was for very real need.
https://www.britishsugar.co.uk/sustainability/our-approach/environmental