“We’ve added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results automatically.”
Simple feature, and Google will never ship it. Paywalled publishers are the ones paying for placement and filing the antitrust complaints, so hiding them is off the table. This is what it looks like when the user is the customer instead of the product. One line in a changelog, and it solves a problem the entire ad-funded search industry has decided to ignore for twenty years.