Your way of browsing the web isn't what most users do. Most users click on the first link. Many of them don't know what reference websites are. A Spanish woman in her 20s has no idea what the wirecutter is.
But secondly, even if you were right, it wouldn't matter. Users who click on the first link for everything don't change the relative clickthrough rates. The people who actively choose which links to click on would still be the ones influencing the ranking. Google is smart enough to control for clickthrough rates by their listing in results and knowing how far the user has scrolled.
Let's say for example 90% of users are unsophisticated and 10% are sophisticated. Even if the #2 link is preferred 100% of the time by sophisticated users, you're still going to see 90% of people clicking the first link.
Unsophisticated users are not negatively affecting the quality of results.