This really feels political.
I mean, most of the time, it's really a matter of actually paying attention to the answer you get. As far as I can tell, Google works fine for providing step-by-step, technical answers that are frankly the correct answer to the query.
Google is a robot, in case anyone forgot.
You play stupid games, you win stupid prizes.
Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.
I just frankly prefer to use Google as my go-to search engine. It would take a lot of harassment (like for a subscription service) AND bad search results for me to even consider alternatives. If Google can actually provide me with a workable, useful answer, I don't wanna bother with DuckDuckGo. It's an extra thing that makes the search more time-consuming. The stuff that Google puts up along the way - it doesn't bother me enough to want to switch. I might get a somewhat different hit with DDG, but why bother with DDG when Google does a perfectly adequate job as far as I can tell?