IMO, it's worth it. People spend that much on Starbucks every day. The key feature I like about Kagi is that being able to downrank or outright block certain domains is built right in. I also like that it doesn't throw a bunch of crap on to the page above the fold and it doesn't pretend that it found results when it finds no matches.

Kagi is great! I have to use Google for only about 5% of searches with Kagi, vs about 40% with DDG. I was genuinely surprised