A co-worker wanted to show me a specific vacation photo and just wrote what was in it and the photo came up out of the hundreds he had like magic so that was kinda nifty.
Sure but why not give me file name matches first instead of random pictures, since I started the search from Finder itself? Why try to outsmart the user?
I have no problem with searching pictures using keywords if it’s limited to the Photos app.
It's still super fast for me, but now I have about 10x more internal storage in my machine than in the Tiger days (which is filled with random downloaded PDF files and other crap), so there are way more results, requiring a much more intelligent sorting algorithm than it ever did when it was new.