The Google Search workaround does a perfectly fine job for me.
A couple of things I wonder: A) maybe is a rolling change, and not yet complete; or B) perhaps the goal is to disrupt it enough to make it not reliable, yet functional enough for plausible deniability.
The end result though, is that I read less of the WSJ. I'm sympathetic to the need for paying subscribers, but I've already subb'ed to the NYT, so if I run into unavoidable paywalls at other sources, the end result is that I'll read less of those sources.