This is a great observation. Google established rules that would increase your website's pagerank. In response to that SEO was created, and with that the experts. Tags, inbound links, and then more content.

A good example of how this spawned articles that are absolutely useless: https://www.partitionwizard.com/news/

All those articles have nothing to do with application they're trying to sell, but they do (did) bump the pagerank.

Many companies do this, which has polluted search results for issues to the most common denominator, making it impossible to find that 1 post that actually has a working solution.

And now we've reached the next stage, those pages are no longer written by humans, but entire websites are being generated for the purpose of selling you stuff.

I was searching for the name of the bitter part in a peanut, and stumbled upon this website:

    https://www etprotein com/parts-of-a-peanut-anatomy-of-a-nutty-snack/

We have entered a situation where there is no longer 'no answer', there is always some answer out there, simply to sell you stuff.

In the past if you searched for Brand X at Retailer Y, and they didn't carry it, you'd get no results. Now they autocomplete Brand X's name, and show you a whole bunch of products related to Brand X, with no indication that they don't carry it.