That was a huge wall of text - TLDR :

• Kagi has private investors
• Kagi has had some questionable uses of the private funding, such as opening a t-shirt company
• Kagi started as a AI focused company and pivoted to search
• Kagi is spread too thin over many different projects
• Kagi doesn’t take privacy, or user data seriously

Fair enough, but as long as google, bing, ddg, etc get more and more unusable there will be fans of alternative searches

Even if Kagi crashes and burns, it has demonstrated there is a market demand for useful search results that users pay for directly.

FWIW I don’t use Kagi because of the login / payment info requirements, so I agree broadly with the author. As bad as public searching is, its good enough to not give up privacy.