The biggest players are Facebook and Google who are further entrenched by this regulation, even though it seems like they were supposed to be the targets. All the other sites suffer as a result, while only large ones like NYT stay viable. Many smaller players are now looking at paywalls or patronage to stay in business.

You can easily avoid sites you do not like but I don't see what that has to do with integrity (of what exactly?), or why you think that everyone else would also be ok with losing 80% of content and jobs? Billions of people over decades have shown they prefer free and plentiful content and it's unlikely that is changing anytime soon unless you can somehow change human behavior first.