...yes, but again, you might be typing "travel to Malta". Wikivoyage being completely scrubbed from the index means it has no chance of helpfully showing up in those results.
but again, you are missing my point focused on making your point. I understand that this site is suddenly missing some traffic due to whatever reason nefarious or not. That's a given. Only the people using the search phrase "wikivoyage malta" would realize this. The people that search for "travel to Malta" would just get whatever results that are available for whatever reasons those are what is available. Sure, these peple might miss out on some valuable information, or they might not and nobody cares except tech nerds. The world did not stop spining on its axis because of this.