John Mueller Gives Advice On Increasing Your DA

Here I quote from JM" Search engines won't know that your content is great if there are no signals confirming that, so first build your audience. Keep them engaged, keep them coming back, don't publish just because you can, but rather publish if you have something unique, compelling, and high-quality to add to the internet. If you can keep your audience - the one you're promoting your work to - returning, if they recommend your site on their own, over time search engines will pick up on it too, and metrics like the DA will grow too (assuming it's something link-based)."

So first they say just publish good content and you are good to go, and now they say SE won't know your content is great without signals confirming that.

Typical "guidelines" from google.

Fooling SEOs and content creators to only focus on providing free, great content without the true strong seo signals like backlinks and other signals that truly impact the ranking.
So google can monetize from your free content and you do things for them for free.

https://www.seroundtable.com/google-advice-on-increasing-your-da-33158.html