I get the premise of the complaint.

But it’s sort of ironic that they’re arguing for a worse UX for the end user (having to manually dig through SEO for the answer)

Paid article? I've never even heard of this journal. No thanks. OP needs to post the archive version.

I guess it is more or less the same as https://almcorp.com/blog/google-ai-overviews-publisher-traff... , maybe that submitted link has less fluff and repetitions than the one I found.