This is a recent phenomenon. It seems most of the pages today are SEO optimized LLM garbage with the aim of having you scroll past three pages of ads.
THe internet really used to be efficient and i could always find exactly what i wanted with an imprecise google search ~ 15 years ago.
You'd think with the reputation of LLMs being trained on Twitter (pre-Musk radicalization) and Reddit, they'd be better at understanding normal conversation flow since twitter requires short responses and Reddit... while Wall of Text happens occasionally, it's not the typical cadence of the discussion.
Don’t you get this today with AI Overviews summarizing everything on top of most Google results?