As an American not really in any of the groups (retired, living abroad) this is spot on.

Aw shucks

This may be a helpful graphic when deciding on a search engine

https://www.searchenginemap.com/

I signed up for 3 free months of Kagi recently. I don’t think I do enough searching to justify paying for a search engine but I have been pleased with search results for what I asked and nothing more.

I’ve been using Orion on iOS and been happy with it so far