Tack “&udm=14” on to the end of a normal search, and you’ll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface. While Google might not let you set this as a default, if you have a way to automatically edit the Google search URL, you can create your own defaults.
I’ve given up trying to understand what benefit companies like googie get from most of the shitty consumer-hostile decisions they make. You’ll have to ask them when they inevitably shut that down what they get from doing that.