Brave Search is pretty good for basic queries but it doesn't support most operators, even basic ones like quotes, making it less suitable for people who use their google-fu a lot. When I use Brave as my default, I have to fall back on DDG or Google much more frequently than I was falling back on Google with DDG as my default, and it's usually because I need to use an operator.

More on topic, they still use Bing's near-useless image search, so even if it's getting worse Google Images is seemingly the only decent option in that category.