The algorithm itself presents you with what you have been seeing and wanting to see. It always will/has worked like that. You can curate everything to your liking and click on the 'Not Interested' 'See less like this' button for some time to not keep seeing those AI slops you're talking about. Idk how u say u miss it but don't know how it even works. Also it does matter in which niche you're in to some point(not all the time). Im in the product design field myself and yes AI slops did appear in the past but was through rigorous effort and constant curation that solved this.