The issue you are missing is that the sites Google stole that information from often invested money in gathering it.

The CelebrityNetWorth example: https://theoutline.com/post/1399/how-google-ate-celebritynet...

If Google kills CelebrityNetWorth's revenue, Google no longer can scrape updated data from CelebrityNetWorth, because they killed it already. So Google data gets worse or remains static, which quickly becomes inaccurate.

The EU is attempting to fix this issue with the so-called "link tax" everyone has claimed is horrible for the Internet, but really, it's a way to correct the industry. For Google to have good information to scrape, the content creators need to be fairly compensated for that, or else the whole thing falls apart.

Because right now, what Google has done, is acted as a parasite, but a poor one, that actually kills its host.