There are some good points above.
Indeed, there are some great SEO experts, but most of them are either managing their sites or working for big companies. Simple put, they are not publicly available.
SE philosophy hasn’t changed from day 1. If you follow this philosophy and understand how SE think, breathe & work, you will succeed no matter on algo updates.
Many so-called experts still believe that buying tons of links will bring solid results. Obsessed with DA, and PA, keyword difficulty and so on. Those days are long gone.
As an example, this is my hobby project launched in Dec 2021. Not a single link buy.
MakeMeGrrrrowl PM me URL, I will take a quick look.