DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google's insistence that people love AI mode. Is anyone surprised by this result?

https://xcancel.com/DuckDuckGo/status/2059371174023348514

I have seen this before with their forced Google+ adoption game. Users aren't adopting Google AI at the rate shareholders or C suits expect, so they now force the adoption at the cost of search engine. Just like Google+ died out, this forced AI mode in Google search is going to die and I hope it will be the end of the company as well.
@nixCraft aren't the stakes of the bet higher in with AI ? They seem to be all-in as the only road ahead for their enterprise demanded growth