I wouldn't say there's goalposts here or winners and losers, we're all throwing out ideas. Issue pops up, humans suggest fix. New issue pops up, new fix needed.

I wouldn't say there's goalposts here or winners and losers, we're all throwing out ideas. Issue pops up, humans suggest fix. New issue pops up, new fix needed. This is how all stuff evolves. I guess I'm more broadly reacting to the sentiment in most comments I'm seeing (which is itself a trope in the dynamics of how upvote-based communities work). Based off all the recent "Google results now suck" posts that went viral, it seems there's broad sentiment that Google is now a cesspool of SEO'd-to-death affiliate marketing. But it also seems there's broad sentiment to shut down and discourage new possibilities before they even get attempted, regardless of potential merit. It seems like an irrational dichotomy.