Confluence is absolutely terrible. Their accessibility user experience is abysmal. It was designed for people who operate user interfaces with their mouses rather than their keyboards. Not only that, but it seems to be quite unreliable. Seems every other day some random component is not working, like uploading screenshots.
Couldn't agree more! Confluence is a steaming pile. Worse, it steals key strokes used by the OS. If I want to search the page, I do Cmd-F and instead of bringing up the browser's search page function, it brings up its own broken "search everything except what I need" function. It's the worst.
Same here - the default search seems woefully inadequate at least as far as I use it. If I do a partial search sometimes I get back docs I want but if I type in more specificity (more through muscle memory while typing, not necessarily trying to narrow down the results) then what I'm searching for disappears from the list even though it's more precise.