DDG is trying to be too much like Google now, with the Ai summaries and chat bot.
Actual search results are still bad. Seems to be a trend across most engines
Duckduckgo's AI search feature is utterly worthless. Brave Search does a much better job (that is, if you don't mind 50+ captchas per week).
DDG has an entrypoint with AI features disabled at https://noai.duckduckgo.com/