I am also a victim of these bad practices on my website. Actually, at the beginning of our journey, many wrong-headed bloggers misguided us. So we blindly trust them and follow them. But between our blogging journeys, we analyze how, without increasing domain authority, we can survive, rank, and get traffic.
My website is related to (A Tech & Household Blog)
Here is my link & I have same issue..
https://aarticlesland.com/