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tl;dr: Notification channels, which were introduced with Android 8, are now disabled by default and one has now to enable them manually (screenshots below by Android Police):
Not for most of the apps that my folks use. For instance, there's this local grocery shopping app they use for groceries - the service is actually so good that there's nothing really competitive in that space. Another one is an app for a TV channel which has the shows they watch, the app is needed for some interactive features. And so on. All of these apps spam notifications, with no option to filter them out without turning off the notifications completely.
Sure, but so are notification channels - how many normal users even know it's a thing?
Not really. From what I've observed, lot of these notifications follow the same pattern eg "X% DISCOUNT" "Something something DEAL" etc. Should be fairly easy to use a simple text filter, regex for the advanced users.
In any case, I still think having at least a Bayesian-style spam filter, or even an AI-backed one, would be a good thing. And having Google penalize spammers somehow.