Google cares that if you click a link in a Google search result that the content you see is the same as what they crawl, so paywalled sites give Google search t

Google cares that if you click a link in a Google search result that the content you see is the same as what they crawl, so paywalled sites give Google search traffic a pass because they don't want to be penalized by Google. Of course, I agree with you in principle.