Google is probably even more afraid of ChatGPT replacing it. So giving the user what they want is likely their way to try to hang on.

IMO a LLM is just a superior technology to a search engine in that it can understand vague questions, collate information and translate from other languages. In a lot of cases what I want isn't to find a particular page but to obtain information, and a LLM gets closer to that ideal.

It's nowhere near perfect yet but I won't be surprised if search engines go extinct in a decade or so.