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SEO is actually one of the things that started me thinking about this. Although those dumb overly long cooking blogs were (previously) written by humans, the incentives led to a style that was no longer genuine. Much worse were those shameless fake review sites that existed solely to promote some VPN or antivirus. Sure, a human might've put that together, but so many words with so little regard for meaning.
I never understood why we tolerate the whole recipe site bullshit. It's been a thing my entire life and it would take no effort to make a recipe site that just gives the recipe. You could when keep doing the 8000 word essays for the search engines and just hide it in the background or something.
I believe the important part is to make people scroll, not just the number of words. For some unholy reason google considers that a better website.
That's also why some sites have a "go to recipe" button at the top now, which auto scrolls you to the recipe. They don't care that you read the text, only that you scrolled a lot.
https://www.cookingforengineers.com/
My friend (who is an engineer) pointed me at this a few years ago and I've been pleased with it.
Oh man, that's soothing. A recipe, for a meal, and it explains what I need to do, in the order I do it, and the pictures actually show the cooking. This is some next level stuff. I hope it catches on!
I got so tired of them I actually started asking ChatGPT for recipes instead. It's mostly worked out.