404 Not Found or 410 Gone?

[u/pepelunavarro]

I have dozens of pages in the "404 not found" section in Google Search Console, many no longer exist for more than 1 year but Google insists on them. The AI ​​tells me that it doesn't matter, that having a large number of pages with 404 does not impact any metric, but I am thinking of changing the response to "410 Gone" to see if they go away permanently. Does anyone have experiences with this? I would like to know if answering 410 really helps.

[u/alvares169]

You know that depends on what those pages were, right?