Most people simply don't care about metadata. The average user searching for information doesn't use metadata fields to search, they just use free-form text sea

Most people simply don't care about metadata. The average user searching for information doesn't use metadata fields to search, they just use free-form text search. I understand the importance of good data for academics (bad metadata on electronic book archives drove me crazy when I was researching etymology for the OED), but for most people it doesn't really matter.