it seems (to me anyway) that almost anything related to brave that gets posted on lemmy gets downvoted quite a bit, this post is an example. (although, I may just be overthinking it.)
I know I'll get downvoted for saying this but, imo this is a great feature, I have always wanted to blacklist some websites from search but there was no reliable way, sites like quora, pinterest and w3schools.
I know there are extensions, but this is better, I don't like brave either but they've been adding useful features to brave search, and well it seems like a pretty good alternative to other search engines as of now.
I guess people just don't like brave because of the crypto stuff, and they've also done some things in the past like getting a fork (that removed BAT) shut down, adding affiliate links to URLs etc.