What I meant is that DDG focuses on privacy while promising the same results as Google. This used to be desirable, but now DDG ['s leadership] is seemingly unaware that Google's results are no longer good

IIUC, "it is missing" was used in the sense "it is missing the forest for the trees" -- as in, the Big Picture is that search results are turning to garbage steadily, but if you shrink your perspective, hey at least you're not being tracked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯