You're not accounting for all the high quality content they produce. Like Creating a PCB in Everything, or Logic Noise.

https://hackaday.com/tag/logic-noise/

https://hackaday.com/tag/creating-a-pcb-in-everything/

they also have a kind of community website full of maniacs (in the good hacker sense)

people making discrete custom CPUs for instance

I admit I don't like hackaday a lot but they have some value

They've been bought out some years ago, before that it was mostly just interesting articles at a much lower rate.

A sad but regular occurence of business mindset.. quantity .. quality and the usual.

On the other hand, I would never have heard of any of the cool projects they feature if not for Hackaday. Do you know of better aggregators for such content?