Some random person's travel blog in 2008 would be full of genuinely useful information. That's gone now, replaced by regular people just posting pics to social media and then affiliate-link filled seo-optimized travel sites, half the time written by someone who hasn't even gone to the place but is just copying info and adding sponsored content.

The same is true for essentially everything- gardening, video games, books, bikes, bird watching, baking. The genuine amateur enthusiast content isn't published on the open web in accessible text. It's locked in walled gardens or just never created in the first place, with people choosing to post a couple pictures or videos rather than write a blog post about it.