Yeah, Kagi is fine without it, but if they would spend all the effort they pit into AI into normal Kagi search, Kagi could possibly be amazing without it. E.g. Kagi could spend their time on improving deep site search (Stackoverflow/Github/Reddit) which is one of the few areas where they still lag behind Google.
Isn't the problem that only google can crawl new reddit pages now?
I think biggest obstacle in front of normal Kagi search is index size. Kagi is a multi-index search engine for now.
IMO, as they improve their (own/in-house) indexes, I think they’ll be able to build more features on top of standard Kagi search.