The part I hate the most is they got rid of the dictionary/thesaurus/etymology thing and replaced it with AI overview. Now "define <word>" or "<word> synonyms" gives you an AI overview with consistently worse output than the nice, consistent and deterministic dictionary output.
James Somers’ You’re probably using the wrong dictionary (2014) changed my life for the better.
https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary
Bryan Garner’s Modern American Usage is a phenomenal resource as well.
I've switched completely to Wiktionary for the dictionary and etymology part of that. It's obviously not perfect, but neither was Google for that matter. For the thesaurus part, whatever the first result on DuckDuckGo is is usually enough to knock some sense into my brain so I actually remember the word I want.
Yes, I hate this. The old knowledge panel was way better.
I would not be surprised if this particular one is a means to inflate token processing numbers
half the time I'm just using it to make sure I have the spelling correct, but if I'm too off, I get some random Ai slop back rather than the most likely word I mispelled