[captainmuon]

I wouldn't say the content is incredibly slim. If you check a few categories, he writes a introductory post and a short summary "review" for each product:

https://www.goodcheapandfast.com/articles/best-noise-cancell...

https://www.goodcheapandfast.com/articles/best-gaming-keyboa...

I know Google says they are all about the algorithm, but I'm convinced they are relying heavy on manual review farms. Of course admitting it would damage their brand, and disincentivize people from coding "to their algorithm". But I'm pretty sure a manual reviewer thought "yep, spam site" and penalized it.

One other thing, the landing page is basically a search engine / portal. In my experience, google also hits everything in this category. (I built a small search engine for a specific vertical in the past - no longer online - and it too showed strange search behavior after a while.) Maybe replace the landing page with a blog / magazine like feed?