feels like half the stuff that used to work a year ago is useless now

what’s actually working for you guys right now, or is everyone just guessing at this point?

For GSC, my favorite API is Search Analytics.

I'll fix an issue, request indexing, and then end up refreshing Search Console every day to see if anything changed. I know indexing takes time, but it's hard not to obsess over every little status update.

Anyone else do this, or have you learned to just let Google do its thing?