John Mueller of Google repeated this on LinkedIn:
Google has been claiming that although Core Web Vitals are generally rather significant, they have never been that crucial for search results.
Google has been navigating on that line ever since the metric was published. However, SEOs have been fixated on it as it is a metric Google owns and utilises.
John’s answer connected to a LinkedIn post asking/claiming that Core Web Vitals had “became a significant ranking factor.” John said no; it is not. Here is the whole reply:
