In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google Declared War on the Remnants of the Web

Fair but it's pretty clear if you've used the new Google. I'd have to say Google is just catching up here, though, rather than leading the charge. I, like many people, stopped clicking on random links quite some time ago, in preference to having an LLM read them and answer my question.

That's due to a combination of that direct answer being a legitimately better experience, and the Google Search experience having been so enshittified for years that practically anything would be a better experience.