So, you feel search in Evernote is good? Personally I've found it severely lacking. I can't tell you how many times I've searched for something that I know is there (and that I do find after manually looking for it), but search comes up empty.
That's interesting, and absolutely not my experience. Search has been robust, finds what I need, and absolutely worth having. Might be worth a support request -- maybe there's some undetected lossage in your account's search indices and they need a rebuild. (Or maybe you can kick that off self-service?)
I think you have found most people's problems, not just with Evernote, but with all other clipping services: it's write often, read once (if at all).
Yeah I prefer ripgrep with a bunch of markdown files.