It's always tough to just drop examples, it's very much a "feels" thing. Whether that means the results are truly worse, or maybe presented worse, hard to say. But as a DDG user now I somewhat regularly use the "!G" bang but I never really did similar on Google.

That said, here's my current go to example: do an image search for "pixel 9".

Almost every picture DDG shows is wrong. That blue color all over the results doesn't exist. Nearly half the results are just the Pixel 8. Maybe a third are "leaked renders". Finding actual correct photos is a needle in a haystack and what's scary is this is a simple case to discern but what other results am I being mislead on.

I mainly use DDG but I do believe it is worse.