Tired of people saying SEO is dead

Lets talk facts: in 2021 the daily users was around 7 billion searches and 2024 was around 8.5 billion. So more people are searching than ever. Someone is always ranking for every search term. So how can you say SEO is dead despite this? Many blogs still rank, companies rank, and maybe Reddit does have a silly share in search but so do a lot of other sites big and small