Forgive my ignorance, but in which ways is it better? From a user's perspective, as long as it's blocking querys from configured lists and does support dns-over-tls or similar, what's there to be better at?

I use it. It’s more lightweight than AdGuard, in terms of resources. I find the UI to be at the same time a worse UX but quicker to achieve things. I don’t think that they perform differently once they have the same blocklists.

i used it since it first inception years ago, and then move to adguard home later

Im a pihole user. I never felt the need to move to another platform but im listening to yall discuss this.