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I'm having trouble finding where to pin the blame on the wind farms and the EU. Note: Hornsey's protection was not configured correctly and has since been adjusted, so this is not a problem with wind farms in general.

Why weren't the wind farms configured correctly in the first place, especially as this kind of configuration error is pretty much exactly how Australia's blackout happened. But 'renewables' are EU policy, supported by our home-grown vegetables. And strongly supported by lobbying groups like your report. Which ironically included contributions from Orsted/Dong and Siemens, and recommended we build a lot more offshore wind. Who could have predicted that?

Or from the NG report-

To ensure that, in the event of a loss, the rate of change of frequency does not result in the disconnection of users the ESO can decide to increase the total system inertia (which would slow down changes in frequency) or reduce the size of potential generation and demand losses that could credibly occur. A smaller sized loss will result in a correspondingly smaller RoCoF in low inertia conditions. The optimal approach is to reduce the size of credible system infeed losses on generation, demand or interconnectors. This approach is more cost effective than increasing the level of inertia.

So roughly translated.. all 'renewables'* are fundamentally low inertia. Increasing the level of inertia would mean adding say, 1.878GW of battery capacity. Suppliers of said batteries would approve, but it would add huge costs. So NG recommends breaking generation into smaller units, ie if Hornsea were Nx500MW discrete chunks, losing 500MW would be easier to protect/manage.. But that makes wind projects more expensive.

And it basically disagrees with your cited report, so who's right, the NG, or the NGO/lobbying shop?

Another alternative would of course be to ditch wind, as our ancestors did and focus on low carbon/high inertia generation like nuclear.. But that may require some brave scientists to explain why nuclear power stations don't (and can't) explode & counter decades of Green propaganda.

*Drax being an exception, at least until it runs out of trees to burn. Strange how that one's considered Green.