One of the ways that i feel search engines limit the ways that the web can express itself, is by requiring sites to conform to content standards optimized for search engines.
For example, if your website is a non-verbal, motion animated, gestalt-style emotional experience, there is no way for search engine to "discover" that site without fundamentally changing that experience.
What this has done, over time, is make the web a noisy polluted environment where if you search for something like "i need a quiet site to go to, to hang out" - you'll find blogs, tweets, substacks about mental health and walking outdoors, etc. Due to the nature of search engines, it simply won't send you to a quiet place, and search engines simply don't understand how to search "unsearchable" content.
an "images" like search area (or lens) where people can search specifically for interactive games, novels, etc, and websites that don't fit into the standard SEO search models
users could submit their sites, add tags for relevance, descriptions for search. once a settled model is in place, then push back on creators to implement certain optimization concepts.
