the end of the web as we knew it

In the early days Google was a good thing - a convenient way to do search.  Something that was as entertaining as it was useful ..  'surfing the web' became an even better description.  Over the years Google has become less useful, serving up a lot of garbage along with ads in the process.  Now it will use LLMs to summarize what it wants you to know.  That's very bad if you're really looking for information that isn't filtered by Google and bad for web publishers.  Why would they want to even allow Google to visit them?   Of course progress, but I suspect it's a bad thing.