The gilets jaunes protests had open clashes between protesters and cops in full brawls. Cops that got isolated were beaten to a pulp. The confrontations with police are very real and very serious, not just minor clashes. A kid has had his hand blown off, some protesters have been brutally savaged, there's one video of a cop feeling up a highschool girl while he has her pinned down for arrest, there's another video of 3 student protesters beating the shit out of a lone cop.

Short of spilling into full blown revolution and civil war the actual conflict occurring is as serious as it can get. The orgs are not ready to push for that yet though, they're pursuing reformism until it is absolutely proven that it is not an option before moving to the next stage, the wider population is unlikely to support revolution without reformism proving itself unavailable.