Really sounds as if your made up story is deeply rooted in your own experience. I am sorry if something like a new guy taking your position and claiming to be smarter has happened to you but creating imaginary stories is not quite what this comment section needs and you'd probably be better off dealing with this in a different way
Not at all. Nothing personal. Although, it looks like you are the one self-projecting here.
It’s simply how times change and people with it. Knowledge is lost when people move on and the reasons why certain decisions were made are not transferred.
At any rate, I imagine people at Google are trying to figure out why there is such a negative opinion on their search results lately.