Yes, Google isn't so good nowadays, or my problems have become sufficiently advanced to not be a quick search away.
What might save us from ChatGPT enshittification are the freely available LLM's. Probably won't be long before we can have a code companion running locally. It's probably already here
In my experience if you search for an advanced topic it's likely to drown you in beginner's tutorials for anything even remotely related.
My pet peeve is i do embedded linux on custom hardware, and every time i need to check something i'll be up to my neck on tutorials telling me how to enable, say, spi on a raspberry pi in user space. Even if I was explicitly searching for a totally different SoC and a recent reference for the kernel functions :)
What might save us from ChatGPT enshittification are the freely available LLM's. Probably won't be long before we can have a code companion running locally. It's probably already here