@ZeroWasteCo I’d love to see a source proving this claim that Google stopped crawling pages containing “blog” is true.
I’m sure it’s NOT true.
One example, of thousands, is Ahrefs blog. They use /blog/ in their URL structure. They have a hugely successful blog and are one of the most prominent names in SEO, and their blog web pages are definitely crawled/indexed in Google.
Having “blog” in the URL is a non-issue.