And Amazon search, youtube search. There do seem to be somewhat different incentives involved though, those examples are primarily about increasingly pushing lower quality content (ads, more profitable items, more engaging items) because it makes more money.

The incentive mismatch that I seem to be observing is that Wall Street is constant need of new technical disruption. This means that any product that shows promise will be optimized to meet a business plan rather than a human need.

Yandex image search is now better than Googles just by being the exact product Googles was 10+ years ago.

Watching tools decline is frustrating.