OK, are you suggesting there is a search engine which produces better results for this specific case?

The version of Google they had in 2010?

would google have returned results from a JS rendered site back then? The ability to index client side JS rendering puts google ahead of their competition, as more sites become JS rendered they support google's monopoly.

Improving one minor feature can’t fix something where the basic functionality has been broken.

That’s like Yahoo designing a fancier logo while the company falls apart.

More like 2003-2005 for me. By 2007, the quality was sliding due to them targeting mainstream folks, and deprioriting the tech fridge stuff that I care about.