Has Google gotten worse in the last few years? I instinctively try to Google these kinds of things, but it is getting harder to find the results I want.
Well every company is buying ad space for "my product vs competitor product" so the first 4 results are garbage. Then there's probably some images or product placement, so you scroll about 923,482 pixels down the page and ta-da you find someone who actually has used the products and reviewed them.
Yeah they care more about authoritative links than how relevant they are to your exact search query these days. I find much better results using Brave Search.