All 3 of your examples are ad-driven free platforms for finding content that the platform didn't produce. Free platforms are incentivized to overwhelm you with options, forcing you to look at everything, including ads. Like a grocery store or Ikea, they don't want you to make a quick in-and-out visit. They want you to look at everything they have in hopes that you'll be impulsive.

You want pretty much the opposite: a tool. Tools let you quickly and efficiently accomplish a task. No distractions. When you're done, you're done.

The paths to salvation that I see:

- Pay for tools that work well when they're available. I can't speak for them myself, but I know people who swear by <https://kagi.com/> for ad-free web searches.*

- Put time and effort into your own tools. For example, you can setup and run your own search engine. Although, if you're willing to put in that effort you might put effort into hijacking and cleaning up the interfaces of free platforms instead.

- Vote and campaign for interoperability laws to enable others to put effort into hijacking and cleaning up bad interfaces.

*Surprisingly, interfaces don't get much better when you pay for video and music streaming services. I think that comes down to how most people use them. Most people don't open Netflix knowing what they want to watch. They open Netflix knowing that they're going want to watch something, and hoping to find something entertaining.