Have you seen Google's output lately? Their bar is pretty low, I'd say.

Or... why would they renew since they downloaded all the old "useful" content? (and the new content is useless)

It's like downloading a torrent, you may seed a bit, but you would never download it over and over again.

That was more or less the original comment back when they started. Bots were a thing on Reddit before of course but they really started getting out in hand around 2021 which was long before the deal.

They're making Gemini, it's obvious that they wouldn't even know quality if they saw it!