Is Kagi worth it?
I've heard differing accounts. Some people definitely swear by it. But if you're just using search as a portal to Wikipedia or Generic News Of the Day, it still points you to the same catalog of high profile sites as everyone else.
$5-10/mo isn't a wallet buster. But is it really any better than searching Google with udm=14 turned on? YMMV.
Nobody has satisfactorily explained to me how much Kagi is cribbing from the other search engines and how much is their own internal web crawling and sorting heuristics.