[setopt]

The search function in the App Store is also quite bad – it finds only a small fraction of relevant apps, and then throws irrelevant sponsors on top.

Reddit and Google are both better for discovering what to look at in the App Store.

[IndySun]

Yes, a very crucial point, the search is abysmal. The search has no user filter bar trivial things. Related - iTunes store searches used to allow searching such categories as composer, bpm, label (iirc), and other details, but were removed in some iteration prior to 'music' replacing it.