Obviously Google search isn't going to give you an article about Oranges when you query for Apples, but when there's a ton of articles about Apples, having a we

Obviously Google search isn't going to give you an article about Oranges when you query for Apples, but when there's a ton of articles about Apples, having a website with better performance will rank higher. It's unclear how the knobs are tuned, Google's ranking algorithm definitely has a lot to it. All that is a bit irrelevant, this whole thing is about the news carousel specifically, which is basically showing a bunch of articles in a carousel at the top of search results. Previously only AMP articles showed, now I'm guessing you need some minimum threshold of performance. Seems reasonable, you don't want really slow pages that would push away users.