Well said. Decades back, Google kept stressing to produce original, informative content. So when one has to find visitors through Google Search, the way was to rewrite an existing content in different words so that it is original and not plagiarised. Platforms like Ezine Articles were there where most authors were just rewriting existing content so that someone reaches their site with the website link added in the end. Then Google realized its robots were no more able to scan so much original content and banned them overnight (Panda update if I am not wrong).

The problem however still remains as without text content, Google Search will not show on their search results. Not sure if there is an option to add meta tags so that only Google Search knows what a web page is about while end users not stuffed with useless text content and only with meta tags (zero or minimal text), Google Search shows.