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People just underestimate how traveling changed in the past few decades. Especially the refugee crisis made the borders way tighter for Non-EU members.
Before the EU even was a thing, as long as you had a strong passport traveling was super easy within Europe. Only when traveling by car you sometimes had long waiting times, they disappeared since the EU. But very few UK citizens would travel by car. And since the UK wasn't part of the Schengen area, they still had to go through passport control when entering mainland EU. A process that was basically the same as before the EU.
But while the UK was part of the EU they had access to the fast track lanes for EU-citizens. Now they have to stand in line with the rest. And they have to go through the online registration form before traveling. And the number of people traveling has increased and again the control has become way tighter.
The refugee aspect of it is also amazing - the entire Dublin system is basically designed so that countries like the UK could ship asylum seekers back to first countries like Greece and Italy without giving them due process. Leaving the Dublin system means they'll have to unilaterally comply with their UN obligations to people asking for asylum at their shores, making it a whole lot harder to get rid of people.
There's a reason why the European asylum system is as unpopular with human rights activists as it was with the average Brexiteer.