These people really mis-understand how people like me use search. I don't want "an experience," I want a list of documents that match the search specifier.

"Agents, however, come with the ability to reason."

Citations needed. Calling recursive bullshit reason does not make it so.

If agents are making value judgments ostensibly on my behalf, why should I trust them to continue to be aligned with my values if in practice they're almost always running on someone else's hardware and being maintained on someone else's budget?

We'd be stupid to ignore the last 15+ years of big tech "democratization"-to-enshittification bait-and-switch.