They still push a distinct political angle (aka bias) in everything they write, and aren't above lower-quality clickbait.
[1] https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/guardian-owning-scott-trust-t...
> quality reporting
Said every person about their favorite news outlet ever. I'm sure there are a few people out there hate-reading other news outlets, but the majority read their particular news source because they believe it to be somewhat comparatively truthful.
> most other newspapers are beholden to the interests of
> their owners
They are beholden to the hand that feeds them, which in the case of The Guardian is a left-leaning politically biassed audience. It doesn't particularly matter whether what they say is completely the truth, as long as it gets people to pay their memberships.
Also, as with much of the big news corporations (especially the lower budget ones), reporting is typically what I refer to as armchair journalism. Most news articles appear to either be sourced from another website or have come from social media sourced (such as Twitter). There's an awful lot of back-scratching happening between news outlets.