Lots of people here saying ElasticSearch can’t actually do straightforward literal searches.
Sigh.
Sigh.
> Default settings for it include fuzzy matching and returning "relevant" results instead of only exact ones.
Which does not in any way say that it is incapable of literal search, only that it is not the default and that most go for the defaults.
Which has the flow on effect of any elasticsearch site effectively being useless or suboptimal for……. searching for something specific.
Put another way, ElasticSearch is the default search and it’s borked search across the entire web.
Let it go.