I'm in this boat, currently subscribed and with the news of them potentially stripping out the AI offering from the $10 subscription tier, I might give DDG another shot.
It just doesn't seem to surface much reddit content. I know I know reddit, but on niche topics they often have some good discussions/links/experts.
If you mean on DuckDuckGo, we have a (relatively new) reddit module that should surface that content if you add reddit to your query.