SEO needs to die already, it killed search engines

I swear to kami-sama, every time I see a company begging for SEO, I want to punch them in the face.
SEO is exactly what destroyed the usefulness of search engines.

Especially now with AI generated sites and the absolute SEO masters REEdit and StackOverflow, it has become impossible to compete in the search engine space regardless of how well you optimize it.
Plus there’s search bubbles and censors that would potentially pull your website down the drain even deeper in favor for AI generated sites and the big guys.

The only good thing SEO has achieved is that it made more and more people desire a comeback of link aggregators and webrings (or official documentation in the case of programming languages or software in general).