Ask HN: Can we talk about Google Search et al.'s planned obsolescence?

Specifically, the way that both "backbone" search engines seem to have been degraded in order to push users towards AI offerings. Queries that used to reliably find useful links, now don't. But Gemini and ChatGPT find them (after a much longer "thinking" process). It's like they've hidden the older, actually effective functions behind the LLM chatbot interfaces.

No one else is alarmed by this?