Google didn’t kill blogging. Bloggers who wrote millions of seo optimized affiliate pushing garbage posts did that.
Try looking for any kind of ‘real person’ content and you’ll find that it doesn’t appear. If I want to actually get product recommendations I go to YouTube because I can see the person. If I want to get opinions I go to sites like Reddit or medium.
Google did the world a favor by hopefully driving people who saw blogging as an income stream to be milked away.