Comment (and code) search is available for projects in all GitLab tiers: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/search/#basic-search
Premium and Ultimate users have access to Advanced Search: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/search/advanced_search.html
So it's a workaround, but a bad one.
Here's the ticket (2015): https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/13891. The fact that it has so many duplicates in your own project's issue tracker is a good indicator of how bad your issue search is.
> no way to combine a text search with label/milestone/status filters, etc.
You can combine text search with field search (like label/milestone/status. Here’s an example: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues?search=Visuali...