All well and good, but realistically any backdoor can be exploited by unfriendly as well as friendly actors.

Also does this mean government agency communication would also be unencrypted or just Joe schmoe?

Mullvad DNS or libredns

Headquartered in the US so I wouldn’t guarantee it.
This was against Google specifically but I would imagine it would hold up against any US based search engine they felt someone was using.

Vivaldi if you want a chromium privacy experience. Not fully open source but works well, has desktop sync and a good tablet UI which is my biggest reason for not using FF.

I only have a tablet and a phone and until FF creates a viable tablet UI I’m staying away.

Not really and some would argue that from a local network perspective HTTPS is preferable.

The main difference is that HTTPS routes through a standard port so gets “lost” in all other Https traffic whereas TLS uses a distinct port so whilst it’s encrypted you would be able to see at the local level that you’re using DNS over TLS but not what you’re doing.

I use two across different devices.

base.dns.mullvad.net

noads.libredns.gr

Both offer DNS over TLS and both are privacy focused which was why I decided to use them.