It’s always been Adobe’s approach, get em hooked, snuff out competition (or just straight up acquire them), push educators toward materials that are software specific instead of more vague, then push for sales and sue firms using bootleg versions.
After using Figma a fair bit at work and Penpot at home, man the Penpot team is really doing some cool work that I can see rivalling Figma in no time
The first half of the first page is all ads now on Google. It’s utter shit - the things it’s a lot better at than DDG is NLP, being able to understand questions, and anything news related. If you know exactly what you’re searching for though, using the old style of search words works great on DDG