Yes, we need to implement this, but --
Any HTML document is already structured data by its origin.
Google, by forcing us to add this so-called Structured Data, forces us to duplicate our data, just in a different form. This is ridiculous, this is absurd.
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Why on Earth should this clean and absolutely self-explaining code be polluted by itemscopes, itemtypes, itemprops and other metadata? Why in hell can't Google, with all its claimed power of AI, understand this code as is?
Moreover - Google, as a search system, works worse and worse every year. No metadata seems to help it work properly and find exactly what people are asking for - like it worked 15 years ago.
But Google is actually a monopolist. Unfortunately, we must listen to them, whether we want it or not, and implement every absurdity they come up with.