I don't think Google did roll back their main change, hiding/masking the result URLs. What they said was "We always want to make Search better, so we’re going to experiment with new placements for favicons." Sure enough, for me the icons are gone, but that's not what I care about. I mainly use DDG, which has icons that are often useful, and which has proper result URLs that are IMO essential.

Besides, Google etc. turned me off ads years ago, so they didn't work diligently enough.