Ok, then live in the past I guess? Both content quality and quantity has vastly increased over the past 2 decades to meet the modern demands of billions of people who are now online. This is fact, the world has moved on. Either way you are not the arbiter of what is valuable content or not for someone else. People choose for themselves.

Yes, publishers are businesses. They must make money to create commercial content. This doesn't mean there isn't free content available, and in fact there's more of it than ever before due to the trivial costs of publishing media, but the rest of the stuff has to be paid for somehow.

As stated, consumers do not like to pay (often due to bad value assessment and inability). Ads are much more granular, passive, and equally accessible whether you're a billionaire or a 3rd-world farmer. This also doesn't mean subscriptions and other patronage options don't exist, there are millions examples of those as well.

Does the implementation of advertising online suck? Yes. It's slow, frustrating, privacy invasive and filled with fraud, but you're talking to one of the few people who has pushed for regulation for the last 5 years. It's not a new complaint and it'll take time to change a 12-figure global industry.

However if you think the world hasn't benefited from the commercialization of the internet, with education, entertainment, and information creating progress in every corner of the world, than you are most definitely not in the majority. You're actually in such a minority that it's basically considered the same as any other conspiracy group and largely irrelevant in any serious economic, societal, political or business discussion.

I recommend revising your perspective and acknowledging the differences between advertising as a concept vs the implementation, and especially the progress that it has brought that has led to the world that you seem to take for granted today.