I disagree that reviews are easy to find. Things that look like reviews are easy to find. Actual reviews, where somebody experienced in the domain of the produ

I disagree that reviews are easy to find. Things that look like reviews are easy to find. Actual reviews, where somebody experienced in the domain of the product carefully uses it with a critical eye and accurately reports their findings are surprisingly difficult to find for a great many product categories. I think this has many causes, one of which are things that look like reviews drowning out actual reviews, making the haystack in which the needle is kept bigger. Part of it is those things reducing the market value of reviews, so that there is less budget available for reviewers to do a good job. Part of it is the peddlers of things not supporting reviewers as much as they used to, because a real reviewer might give them a bad review, where they can easily seek out a thing that looks like a review, but has a much higher likelihood of putting their product in a favorable light.