Comment by codexon

Google's job is to fight abusers to give you good results. Is that not the point of a search engine? What else are they going to spend their time working on?

Putting the burden of SEO on everyone else is going to cause people to abandon making websites and seek other platforms like reddit, facebook, instagram, youtube etc... as they have been.

It also wasn't as heavily weighted to manually trusted domains before. I used to have a bunch of backlinks too, but all blogs/forums were manually downranked.

Now these "trusted" domains get free reign to do whatever they want like this.