Google's job is to get you the information that you want as fast as possible. Said another way, it wants to get you off of its search results page as soon as it

Google's job is to get you the information that you want as fast as possible. Said another way, it wants to get you off of its search results page as soon as it can. This is anecdotal, but I almost always abandon pages that lead to an app interstitial, which means that I end up back on the results page. This is a pretty unambiguous signal to Google that the search result was bad. So, the remedy that they're proposing is good and obvious.