>[] Ok, I know it's probably because they're switching more and more to semantic search and ML, but they could retain the hard filters on top The issue is that

>[] Ok, I know it's probably because they're switching more and more to semantic search and ML, but they could retain the hard filters on top The issue is that "power users" that are even aware of quotes and and hard filtering are now the long tail that google is no longer optimizing for. They'd much rather focus on the 99% of searches by, for lack of a better term, normies, and as a consequence, rather than expecting users to learn to think, their search features and performance are regressing toward a totally dumbed down mean. And I think society is worse for it.