I use DDG as my default search engine about 2 years. It's still have some issues should be fix. But it't works fine for programmer and some professional users.
we plan to switch to AWS too. Amazon has so many services, you need to learn how to combine them. May be a new job title will become hot in the further: AWS Architect.
Yes, There is corruption in the US, But an american can't really understand how serious the corruption in China. The situation is so bad that you can find the corrupt CHINA officials every where, not only in China. They had migrated to every where, from US to African.
The "follow" killed RSS. To use RSS, user must known many background knowledge, it's too complexly. "Follow" is a simply way to keep trace the information which you interested.