That's exactly what github's Awesome lists are: Decentralized, democratized handcrafted subject-specific catalogs
Re:How is search so bad? A case study
by bryanrasmussen on Sunday January 19, 2020 @12:23PM
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If they became important sources of information outside technically competent people I suppose we would end up with a bunch of Awesome lists of Content Farms!
Return of the Yahoo! Directory and DMOZ? Heh.
Re:How is search so bad? A case study
by mikehollinger on Sunday January 19, 2020 @10:57PM
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> Boutique hand crafted artisanal catalogs?
I think those are called books. ;-)
Pubmed is an excellent example of a boutique search engine.
Not joking I have a feeling subject specific topics will be further distributed based on expertise & trust.