Google makes billions from advertisers - the companies who pay for ads, the companies who create those SEO-optimized marketing-pages. Those are the target audience, that Google wants to make happy.
Why would they care about us users? We don't pay for search.
One would think that given the purported depth and breadth of our economic system, it would be possible for that system to address all audiences instead of just catering to the most common denominator.
But we've been on a race to the bottom in most sectors for a long time now.
I mean, if they can make billions by serving 99% of people, why would they spend billions on making the remaining 1% happy?