@basil DDG hasn't been fine for me for years, though I'd say it's still the least worst of the crop. I can't use it for anything but a first page search because you haven't been able to exclude results with the minus sign for literal years, so filtering out modern seo garbage is basically impossible.

Windows is an ad-filled wreck, it's a UX mess, and its quality as an actual operating system (overall stability and resource use) has been diving hard imo. Windows 11 is worse, and they're going to stop supporting my PC in 2025 for no reason, so I don't want to be glued to it anymore.

Discord is going through its enshittification phase, dumping their old username scheme for no reason (which nobody asked for or wants), and appears to be going fast down the path of "tech company trying to create dollar value over a usable product", and given the current climate of everyone else going to shit it just kind of seems bad (plus the glassdoor reviews really point to this)