I just tried ripgrep and it's faster and I think I like the output better :)

It is definitely faster. The ripgrep author did extremely extensive benchmarking to a lot of tools. For the most common usecase check out this section, but the rest of the article is very much worth a read as well: http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/#subtitles-literal

The HN thread about it had a good discussion between the ag and ripgrep authors. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12567328