[Apocryphon]

That's an annoyance of how the internet experience is shaped, but hardly a reason for why it's fundamentally ruined now.

That said, the problem also attributable to how much more content there is- it the amount of data is overwhelming, the rise in clickbait and content farmers dampens the signal-to-noise ratio, and so sometimes the mere act of asking people, even anonymous people on an online community, feels more authentic and reliable.