You want to claim it's substantially slower than before. Do you have data to back that up ? If it's based on your personal anecdote, my personal experience is that the speed stayed roughly similar. It has become more "cluttered" with lots of extra stuff - images, knowledge cards, list of items, maps, etc. But the page load speed has been mostly similar - fast enough, though not quite instant.

When they first launched the search-as-you-type, it did feel instant but then I don't search on google.com anymore but use the chrome url bar.

knowledge cards are a lot more than links

My chrome devtools says DDG took 900ms to load the search result on that page (searching for "foo bar"), vs Google search taking ~200ms for the initial result.

And subjectively, comparing side by side, Google is faster to display the result.

So your claim of 100x is not only inaccurate in quantity, it's opposite direction as well.