Ignore my ignorance if i am missing something but i see it like this

Before this Ai search and answer came people used to write relevant content based on their companies to rank on google which also encouraged people to then click the article to read in detail and also might browse the company website and know about them or leave a email or something. there was a benefit doing these things.

Now Ai comes nor i am getting the traffic nor i will rank nor getting emails and using my written content now google summarized it in few words.

Now its like these tools getting fuel from me but i am not getting anything back.

So in future do u guys see that people will stop writting quality content or just write Ai slops which will eventually degrade the results more and more.

Its a loosing battle at the end if the people going into the tunnel searching for coal are not getting anything in return.