In programming forums like Hacker News people are incredibly detached from the average experience with technology, sometimes it is buffling.

Most non technical people I know asked questions to Google even before the AI overview. Instead of looking for the answer in seo-bloated articles, they find it in the overview.

I think google should improve in detecting the kind of query when I need a link that I don't remember, and deactivate the overview on those. If I search for "ryanair booking" I clearly need the url for booking a Ryanair flight, AI overview is useless

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1497/

If programmers and engineers are saying "why would anyone want that?", odds are the product will be a gigantic success.