I would say that Richard is absolutely the expert on these topics. I'm happy to undertake a high-level answer, but if you want details, he would be a more authoritative source. That said, I will give you my best answer to your question.
At a high level, I don't believe that we are moving away from links on the web. To the contrary, we believe that links to publisher content remain a very important contributor to being able to answer individuals' queries in different ways. It is also right that we are looking at different ways of complementing that experience through some of the new generative AI tools that we've been working on for some time and that others have brought to the market, but the linking experience continues to be an important part of a search on Google, and I would expect it would be for the foreseeable future.