That's precisely my point. Canonical did a good thing of mashing it all together into a single product. DDG does the same for search in my book. They've both

That's precisely my point. Canonical did a good thing of mashing it all together into a single product. DDG does the same for search in my book. They've both outsourced the heavy lifting to some third party. In DDG, Bing/Yahoo/Yandex does all of the heavy lifting. In Ubuntu, it's the Linux kernel. They would be nothing without those products they depend on. But they bundle that with like hundreds of different, smaller in scale products to offer a nice experience out of the box. For smaller in scale companies that are trying to compete with big players (like Microsoft and Google), this does seem like a winning combination in my book.