I have to agree with this. The search in macos is really broken. There are so many problems with it. It could be so much better but they havent improved it in years. Even using Alfred i dont get what i want sometimes. Maybe its because alfred is using spotlight indexes? I’d have to look it up.

Yep, Spotlight is my go-to to launch apps but for files, it's either extremely slow, or extremely inaccurate, or simply doesn't show anything but web results. Frustrating...

Same for Finder's search, defaults to searching weird folders and bad at reducing the noise.

This exactly. Yesterday I needed to change my Touch ID settings and typed "Touch ID" into Spotlight search. First result: the dictionary definition of "Touch ID". Nowhere in the list: The System Preferences applet called exactly "Touch ID". Seriously?

but it's the easiest way to find system header files. Who cares about Preference Panes?!