Why do the article sites even exist anymore? Check out this link.
This is clearly a slop article. DDG results are chock full of this exact cookie cutter slop. Clearly if all I’m gonna find in search engines anymore is slop, I might as well just go straight to the source, right? How is this business model viable anymore?
Indie/smallweb is promising and is growing.
https://indieweb.org/
There are indieweb dedicated spaces to search for these sites. Such as https://theindex.fyi/
It’s a return to a very non-corporate web experience.