That's a bit misleading. If the search engine really is that good, you should use it more, and then all of a sudden you'll hit the cap. I probably don't search that much now but that's because it's not worth the trouble.
And I don’t want to think about how much I search.
Comically, the biggest problem I have with signing up since $10 isn’t that much is that I don’t want to have to log into kagi to prove my account. I search on my phone, work computers, random terminals, etc etc. Having to userid and password to all these places disrupts my current UX of 1) open browser, 2) type search (maybe go to ddg.com first).
Changing to 1) open browser, 2) log into kagi, 3) search increases my time by 100x
I usually use the same browser, but I use incognito or fresh browsers at least once or twice a day.
FWIW, I searched less with Kagi, mostly because I needed fewer tries ;)
In practice the opposite happens. Because Kagi is presumeably so good, people use it less, because they find stuff faster. Something that would require 2-3 searches on Google is just one search on Kagi.
Anecdotal evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37008132