At the end of the day it's just an option that users can easily choose to opt out of. As much as I would like them to default to and support DuckDuckGo instead

At the end of the day it's just an option that users can easily choose to opt out of. As much as I would like them to default to and support DuckDuckGo instead (hell, it would be a match made in heaven if Apple were to buy DDG and make it their privacy centrepiece), a lot of people would be confused if they got DDG instead of Google, so I don't really think it's fair to make it out as some "chink in the armour". It's a business win-win in my eyes and doesn't affect me at all.