Kagi was not, to my memory, positioned this way early on when I started paying for it. It was "search but not dogshit because we're not being sponsored by the search results".

If I want a factoid on a website, I want to see it with my own eyes, not filtered through some non-deterministic shit machine that might tell me the right answer. To each their own but me getting what I want doesn't get in your way at all, so we should both be able to use Kagi the way we want to.