I agree, it does seem really bad.
It is as if, the people at the top of google, just want to scrape every last penny of revenue (such as for ads), even if it is a disaster and messes up, the (real customers), users of their platform.
They seem to be doing the same/similar, with google searches, which instead of like in the distant past. The early results (after a sponsored advert link, based on your searches), had what you were really searching for.
These days, you seem to get, more like pages and pages, of search results, favoring ones which probably pay google money, one way or the other. Which can be, relatively useless and time wasting, for the user. Because the websites that they really want/need, are either absent or way, way down the list, of search results.
I suspect, it is because of management, at or near the top of Google. Who are purely interested in greedily exploiting the market, in every way they can, and don't seem to care, even slightly about the users of their products and services.
Hence, that could be going to end up as a bad strategy for Google, in the longer term. As, sooner or later, competitors, will corner the various market(s), and Google will fall out of favour.
I.e. Going for short term profit, over long term success.