DuckDuckGo has certainly been good enough for my regular use for several years now. Switching the search engine to DDG is part of my standard new-browser setup,

DuckDuckGo has certainly been good enough for my regular use for several years now. Switching the search engine to DDG is part of my standard new-browser setup, along with resetting the "new tab" content to blank and installing uBlock Origin. I may have had an easier switch because I never used a google account, and thus never had to deal with personalized search results. I also never liked the natural-language style of search query - too fuzzy - and have continued using the same kind of keyword-based searches that worked when the web was young.