>I doubt the "best candidate" is also the person who can't be bothered to take 10 minutes to update their resume before pressing submit.

Do you really think the best candidates are ones who are bothering to cold apply through hiring portals to begin with? The best interviewers, sure.

For people who are actively searching, 10 minutes for 100 applications is 15 hours of work. Reply rates can be as bad as 1 in 500. In this kind of market you want to get that application rate down to 2-3 minutes. There's no time nor point to tailoring towards dream jobs; oods are you dreams were crushed 200 applications ago.

There's no particular reason your time is more valuable. We're all just trying to survive in these tumultuous times.