Between the lines — what has necessitated AI summaries are the endless SEO search-engine optimisations and the endless ad rolls and endless page element reloads to refresh the ads and endless scrolling and endless JavaScript frameworks with endless special effects that noone wants to waste their time on.

How can the publishers and the website owners fault the visitors for not wanting to waste their time on all of that?

Even before the influx of AI, there's already entire websites with artificial "review" content that do nothing more than simply rehash the existing content without adding anything of value.