Look, it's not so much that the failing and ML-containerization of search keep you from finding the answers to problems you care about. It's that they keep you from finding the people who share your problems or care about the same things you do.
In a world of forums, whether it's reddit or discourse or phpbb or anything, search is a soft path to social discovery, in the way view-source was once a soft path to collaboration. This isn't going away by accident. This is being taken from us.