The EU had a solution for that when Microsoft was doing the same thing with browsers: post install offer the user a choice of web browsers, which IIRC was based on market share.
Which is exactly what google is being forced to implement here, except that because there are thousands of search engines, they're auctioning rather than picking the top 10.
That’s a nice compromise, I like that as a default
are you advocating for the same solution here with search engines...? Because that would just give the same result.