Agreed - I've found that >75% of my DuckDuckGo searches are !bang searches either for Wikipedia or Google-owned sites. I don't actually end up using DuckDuckGo search results all that much.

Why use DuckDuckGo then and suffer an extra roundtrip?

Chrome supports using different search engines directly.

In my Chrome, searching youtube.com is just "you<tab>query<return>", the en.wikipedia.org is "en<tab>query<return>", Google Maps is "maps..." etc.

The nice thing is that it picks up various search engines automatically. Useful for work etc.

And if you want to use DuckDuckGo occasionally, it's just a "duck<tab>" away.

(And Google is my default search engine.)

I really dislike Google as a company and I like that DDG allegedly encrypts my searches and gets the data instead.

I don't think any amount of "encryption" will allow DDG to make a query to Google without Google knowing the contents of the query.

Also, doesn't !g just open a Google search with the specified query?

Chrome's multi-search-engine thing gets in the way for me - it ruins autocomplete.

I barely ever use that one. My favorite bang is !bgg.