Can confirm. Had to manually submit all URLs to Google to get them indexed. Once indexed, everything worked fine, like it used to back in the day. Also, this has been the case for every website launched over the past 12-18 months.

In other words, this was already an issue before ChatGPT and the algo seems to be severely broken. High time for a thorough system check.

Adsense reviews are just as messy. Another department in need of a big shakeup.

I don't know what's going on there, but there's definitely lots of chaos behind the scenes.