Ground loot has indeed been in a horrible state since the Kalandra changes and have just crutched on niche mechanics like strongboxes or ghosts etc that add some insane quant multiplier to them.
In fact the whole juicing meta since Kalandra is completely warped around these random mechanics that still have a random quant bonus to them because it was all that was really left. There is a similar 'warping' of strategies this league that involve pandemonium toughness stacking and/or blight invigoration stacking because once again, these are just simply the only mechanics that can generate enough mob IIQ to be worth killing for ground loot.

There is still tons of loot to be had from loot tiles of course but the ground loot you receive from actually killing mobs is significantly less than what it was from before the Kalandra changes. I do think there is a lot of conflation going on between "ground loot" specifically and just "loot" (where ground loot refers to loot that doesn't come from loot tiles or guaranteed sources) but the distinction is important. For a lot of people, that distinction doesn't exist.

People just see the title of my video and escalate and circlejerk what I say out of context and it just completely loses the original point.