Can’t search on google.com without allowing JavaScript, but it turns out Lite.DuckDuckGo does, and for me at least gives vastly better search results.

That just means you prefer Bing search results. DDG simply proxies Bing Search and removes the tracking elements. So you’d get the same search results with Bing… Though Bing may sort those results differently, since they’d use tracking to push certain sponsored results to the top if they think you’d be more interested in them.